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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
TwinTool
Authors : Lukas Kwiatkowski, A. Erman Tekkaya
Published in: 60 Excellent Inventions in Metal Forming
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
The TwinTool is a tooling concept to speed up the incremental sheet forming process. In this concept two additional linear axes of motion are added to the conventional tooling setup, each of them featured with an own forming tool. While working in parallel, this tooling concept aims at decreasing the process time. However, the TwinTool is a result of a comprehensive study where concepts different in kinematics and flexibility are compared to each other with the objective to incoperate multiple forming zones acting simultaneously during the incremental sheet forming process. Those variants as well as a realized TwinTool prototype are described in this paper.