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Blanking of Stainless Steel
Get PDFSlug pulling, adhesion formation and edge fracture are major challenges in the sheet metal processing industry. They lead to a strong reduction in part quality, process stability as well as profitability. In this study, investigations are carried out on stainless steel X5CrNi18-10 to address the previous mentioned challenges. While slug pulling and edge fracture strongly depend on the geometric characteristics of active elements as well as the selection of process parameters, adhesion formation is mainly determined by temperature and thermoelectric currents. In this publication, the influence of the die channel geometry on the slug pulling effect and the part quality is investigated. Furthermore, the temperature profile over the shear cutting process as well as the resulting thermoelectric currents are determined for the test material. The relationship between edge crack sensitivity, shear cutting parameters and strategies is examined. These investigations thus form the basis for an improved understanding of the shear cutting of stainless steel
Scalable Radar-based Roadside Perception: Self-localization and Occupancy Heat Map for Traffic Analysis
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The impact of anatomical uncertainties on the predictions of a musculoskeletal hand model – a sensitivity study
Get PDFOutputs of musculoskeletal models should be considered probabilistic rather than deterministic as they are affected by inaccuracies and estimations associated with the development of the model. One of these uncertainties being critical for modeling arises from the determination of the muscles' line of action and the physiological cross-sectional area. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome sensitivity of model predictions from a musculoskeletal hand model in comparison to the uncertainty of these input parameters. For this purpose, the kinematics and muscle activities of different hand movements (abduction of the fingers, abduction of the thumb, and flexion of the thumb) were recorded. One thousand simulations were calculated for each movement using the Latin hypercube sampling method with a corresponding variation of the muscle origin/insertion points and the cross-sectional area. Comparing the standard hand to simulations incorporating uncertainties of input parameters shows no major deviations in on- and off-set time point of muscle activities. About 60% of simulations are located within a ± 30% interval around the standard model concerning joint reaction forces. The comparison with the variation of the input data leads to the conclusion that the standard hand model is able to provide not over-scattered outcomes and, therefore, can be considered relatively stable. These results are of practical importance to the personalization of a musculoskeletal model with subject-specific bone geometries and hence changed muscle line of action
