Reshaping of thin steel parts by cold and warm flattening
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Abstract Approximately half of global steel production is dedicated for manufacturing sheets. Due to global warming, geopolitical instabilities and rising raw material costs, recycling sheet metal is increasingly important. Conventional recycling has inefficiencies, therefore improving material efficiency and adopting circular economy strategies is necessary to halve CO2 emissions by 2050. This paper presents a review of sheet metal reuse techniques and introduces an innovative remanufacturing framework of curved steel sheet, with a special focus on the automotive sector and car-body panels. To support the framework presented, an experimental procedure on small-scale samples was carried out. The material tested was DC 0.4 steel parts (0.8 mm thick) characterized by different curvature radii. The material was reshaped and flattened under different conditions to understand the effect of the process variables onto the final quality of the remanufactured parts. The experiments showed that even parts with small curvatures can be flattened and reshaped with success. Lastly, to support the general remanufacturing framework presented, some flattening simulations of a large car-body are presented, revealing the importance of implementing a dwelling stage in the process and the advantage of performing such process with heated tools.
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