Design and Fabrication of Metal Sheet Clamping for Stamping Operation

Mechanical Engineering

Mathematical and computer modelling have been playing an increasingly important role in the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) process of many products. Simulation offers great advantages in the development and analysis phase of products and offers a faster, better and more cost effective way than using physical prototypes alone. In this paper the special tool design for clamping and stamping at same place for proper gripping of the sheet metal. The design of this special tool is develop in the creo 5.0. The proper gripping of the sheet metal under these tool minimize the wrinkles appear on the sheet metal during punching operation. The ANSYS software is used to find out the stresses develop on the springs during the application of load. For the analysis we are considering internal contact with the upper block plate, the stress distribution and deformation are obtained. Taking the single spring as an example, comparison between the performance of the upper block and the steel spring is presented. The comparison results show that the composite spring has lower stresses and much lower weight

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.