Failure Analysis of Sheet Metal Utensils during Deep Drawing Process

Abstract

Sheet metal is one of the most important semi-finished products used in the steel industry, and sheet metal forming technology is therefore an important engineering discipline within the area of mechanical engineering. Deep drawing process is used for manufacturing the utensils from sheet metal. The sheet metal forming process to a large extent is based on experience, rules of thumb and trial-error experiments with or without use of scientifically based engineering methods. Trial-error experiments are very expensive with regard to both, money and time along with material. Therefore, development of both, theoretical and experimental engineering methods is very much needed. The objective of the project is to compare the theoretical and analytical results with the experimental. Also the prediction of failures can be done after simulation in ANSYS. The theoretical limitations can be taken into consideration after evaluation of practical results