Prediction of abrasive punch wear in copper alloy thin sheet blanking

This work presents a combination of finite element simulations of copper alloy thin sheet blanking and a wear algorithm based on Archard formulation for abrasive wear of the punch. Firstly, a tribometer has been specifically designed to measure wear coefficient, and punch worn profiles have been extracted by means of a double-print method. Secondly, the blanking process has been simulated through the finite element method by using an elasto-plastic constitutive model and the shear failure model. Thirdly, a wear algorithm has been programmed using experimental wear data and mechanical fields computed from blanking simulation. Then, a damage criterion, namely the shear failure model, has been calibrated by an original method based on stress triaxiality analysis and shear height value measured from blanked edge profile. Finally, punch wear predictions have been discussed and compared to experimental results. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.