https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=3552 Publications of Auteurs Eneko Saenz de Argandoña fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=2081 The final quality of sheet and tube metal formed components strongly depends of the tribology and friction conditions between the tools and the material to be formed. Furthermore, it has been recently demonstrated that friction is the numerical input parameter that has the biggest effect in the numerical models used for feasibility studies and process design. Industrial dedicated software packages have introduced friction laws which are dependent on sliding velocity, contact pressure and sometimes strain suffered by the sheet and currently, temperature dependency is being implemented as it has also major effect on friction. This last dependency on temperature is attributed to the viscosity change of the lubricant with temperature. In this work, three lubricant having different viscosity have been characterized using the tube sliding test. The final aim of the study is to obtain friction laws that are contact pressure and sliding velocity dependent for their use in tube hydroforming modelling. The tests, performed at various contact pressures and velocities, demonstrate that viscosity has a major effect on friction. As shown in the literature, the friction coefficient is also varying with the contact pressure and sliding velocity.Abs Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:44:01 +0100 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:55:09 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=2081 https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=426 In the last few years many efforts have been carried out in order to better understand what the real contact between material and tools is. Based on the better understanding new friction models have been developed which have allowed process designers to improve numerical results in terms of component viability and geometrical accuracy. The new models define the coefficient of friction depending on different process parameters such as the contact pressure, the sliding velocity, the material strain, and the tool temperature. Many examples of the improvements achieved, both at laboratory scale and at industrial scale, can be found in the recent literature. However, in each of the examples found in the literature, different ranges of the variables affecting the coefficient of friction are covered depending on the component analysed and the material used to produce such component. The present work statistically analyses the contact pressure and sliding velocity ranges achieved during numerical simulation (FEM) of sheet metal forming processes. Nineteen different industrial components representing a high variety of shapes have been studied to cover a wide range of casuistic. The contact pressure and sliding velocity corresponding to typical areas of the tooling have been analysed though numerical simulation in each case. This study identifies the ranges of contact-pressure and sliding velocities occurring in sheet metal forming aimed to set the characterization range for future friction studies. Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:10:22 +0100 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:17:26 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=426