Handbook of Die Design

BETTER PERFORMANCE IN EVERY PHASE OF DIE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING The classic reference on metal-stamping die design and operations just got better. Twenty-year-plus engineering veteran Ivana Suchy's Second Edition of the Handbook of Die Design now adds to its comprehensive coverage new ways to improve processes and reduce costs, from design through manufacturing. Whatever you blank, pierce, punch, bend, form, draw, or otherwise fabricate, this reference gives you the hands-on guidance and use-it-now data you need to do it better, faster, safer. It's loaded with at-a-glance charts, step-by-step guidelines, rules of thumb, and up-to-the-minute techniques for ensuring precision design for every type of sheet metal pressworking. It's the essential on-the-job tool for engineers, designers, and technicians in die design and the pressworking range of operations looking for better evaluations and greater job satisfaction. NEW WAYS TO IMPROVE PROCESSES AND CUT COSTS bull; bull;Useful new hardware and specialized hardware bull;Custom-made automated systems bull;New types of pressroom equipment bull;Illustrations and specifications for rotary bending techniques bull;New coating processes to increase tool durability and prevent galling bull;Additional strip samples and actual die design/manufacturing problems bull;More detail on strain hardening of material and its effect on drawing, forming, and bending operations, and the tooling involved bull;Illustrated explanations of the use of nitrogen cylinders and air springs in die manufacture bull;U.S. symbols added to metric for all dimensions and math applications, including tolerance ranges DIE DESIGN, INSIDE OUT: Basic Die Design and Die-Work Influencing Factors * The Theory of Sheet-Metal Behavior * Metal Stamping Dies and Their Function * Metal Stamping Dies: Their Construction and Assembly * Metalworking Machinery * Blanking and Piercing Operations * Blank Calculation or Flat Layout * Bending and Forming Operations * Drawn Parts * Practical Die Design * Die Process Quality and Automation, and Die Maintenance * Springs: Their Design and Calculations * Spring Washers * Materials and Surface Finish * Die Cost EstimatingSuchy, Ivana is the author of 'Handbook of Die Design ' with ISBN 9780071462716 and ISBN 0071462716.