Bachelor and Master Theses

In multi-stage cold forming for the production of complex sheet metal components, the components and tools heat up to temperatures of 100 °C with the high-strength materials used today and at high strains. For this reason, actively cooled tool parts and now also additively manufactured tools with internal cooling channels are increasingly being used. To gain a deeper understanding of the interactions in the process and to predict hot spots on the tool, a thermally coupled simulation model of the first stage was developed.

The aim of this work is the further development and optimization of this model for successive tool stages and to localize the heat input from simulation results. The following work packages are to be processed.

• Familiarization with the simulation software
• Modeling of the subsequent stages
• Determination and localization of the heat inputs
• Compilation in a scientific paper

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