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Hot Stamping, or Press Hardening, is a metalworking process commonly used in the automotive industry. In hot stamping the sheet metal steel is heated over ~950°C and then rapidly cooled to get high strength components.
Characteristics
[edit]Metal forming tends to have more uniform characteristics across its subprocesses than its contemporary processes, cutting and joining.
On the industrial scale, forming is characterized by:[1]
- Very high required loads and stresses, between 50 and 2500 N/mm2 (7-360 ksi)
- Large, heavy, and expensive machinery in order to accommodate such high stresses and loads
- Production runs with many parts, to maximize the economy of production and compensate for the expense of the machine tools
References
[edit]- ^ Lange 1985, p. 2.2.
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