Handbook of Die Design provides the major formulas, calculations, cost estimating techniques, and safety procedures needed for specific die operations and performance evaluations.

Features:

• Useful new hardware and specialized hardware
• Custom-made automated systems
• New types of pressroom equipment
• Illustrations and specifications for rotary bending techniques
• New coating processes to increase tool durability and prevent galling
• Additional strip samples and actual die design/manufacturing problems
• More detail on strain hardening of material and its effect on drawing, forming, and bending operations, and the tooling involved
• Illustrated explanations of the use of nitrogen cylinders and air springs in die manufacture
• U.S. symbols added to metric for all dimensions and math applications, including tolerance ranges

Contents

• Basic Die Design and Die-Work Influencing Factors
• Theory of Sheet Metal Behavior
• Metal Stamping Dies and Their Functions
• Metal Stamping Dies and Their Construction
• Metal Working Machinery
• Blanking and Piercing Operations
• Blank Calculation and Flat Layout
• Bending and Forming Operations
• Drawn Parts: Evaluation of a New Design
• Progressive Die - Strip Layout
• Springs, Their Design and Calculations
• Spring Washers
• Materials and Surface Finish
• Die Cost Estimating

Index

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