Saturday, August 11, 2007

Circle Grid Analysis Maximum Deformation Zone

Yanwu Xu has an article in the August 2007 issue of Metalforming Magazine. This article is based on his book "Modern Formability: Measurement, Analysis, and Applications.
This article details manually measuring deformed circles in the grid to find the ellipse of maximum deformation. This then is the center of the Deformation Zone.
I remember Eric Kam said he spent a number of years doing circle grid analysis. This article answered a few questions I had and gave me some new ones.

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