Analysis and Simulation of Single Point Incremental Forming by ANSYS®

Abstract

Single Point Incremental Forming, SPIF, has a great potential application since it can be easily implemented for small-batch production and prototyping. In earlier works, authors of this contribution researched about the reach of Soliworks®. They found that software was limited to short paths simulation. In this work, a methodology for simulating SPIF by ANSYS Workbench software is shown. Two medium-size different shapes of titanium ASTM B-265 have been simulated and results have been compared to those obtained experimentally. As it is demonstrated herein, ANSYS permits to simulate SPIF processes, but small elements should be applied for obtaining a good agreement with experimental results. Nevertheless, ANSYS simulation allows us to achieve a better understanding of the process and comparative results can analyse in order to know the influence of technological parameters of SPIF process.