The North American Deep Drawing Research Group is pleased to announce their Annual Fall Meeting on Thursday, December 4th at Saint John’s Resort, 44045 Five Mile Road, Plymouth, MI 48170, USA. The meeting will be in the Lilly room. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Our meeting will be co-located with the International Fracture Consortium held at the same venue on December 2nd and 3rd.
Presentations will focus on forming of sheet metal parts and related adjacencies including (but not limited to), defects, key enablers, lubrication, coatings, and surface texture. We encourage you to present your experiences in relevant research and industrial topics. These presentations help members stay current with ongoing research and industrial trends and allow for informal input and recommendations from peers. If you have a topic to present, please send your name, company, presentation title, and time requirement to ProgramChair@NADDRG.org. We will gladly schedule qualified presentations for this or a future meeting.
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At the May 2025 meeting, we heard about many of the listed below.
- Science Based Engineering of the Die Face
- Sheared-Edge Safety Factors for Sheet Metal Forming Simulation
- Pros and Cons of ASTM and ISO Test Standards for Experimental Material Card Preparation
- Analysis of Contact Pressure Distribution During Sheet Metal Flow Through the Die Entry Radius
- Process Artefacts and Influence of Friction in Kinematic Hardening Characterization
- Investigating the Coupled Effects of Temperature and Strain Rate on Gen III 980 Steel
- A Practical Look at Formulating for Success
- HiVe Assembly of Al Cast and UHSS Components
At the December 2024 meeting, we heard about many of the listed below.
- Review of SMART technologies in stamping
- Using heat to stamp automotive aluminum parts – Review of published work at GM
- Hot Formability of a 7000-Series Automotive Aluminum Alloy Using Nakazima and Marciniak Tests with Rapid Heating
- PHS Production in an EAF Compact Strip Production Mill
- Manufacturing Feasibility and Hot Stamping Technology of Large PHS Bodyside Structures using PHS 1.8GPa
- Evaluation and Correction of Friction Models in Equi-Biaxial Stress using Disc Compression
- Gen3 Elevated Temperature Testing
- Precise Deposition of Stamping Lubricant Using Inkjet Technology
- Should NADDRG Play a Role in Recommending Standards for Data Integrity Management in Smart Manufacturing Applications?
At the May 2024 meeting, we heard about many of the listed below.
- Edge Stretch Performance of Outer Skin 6000 Aluminum in Typical Automotive Blanking Conditions
- The Effect That Trim Edge Quality Has on the Feasibility of Stretch-Flanging Gen3 AHSS
- A Holistic Approach to Understanding Local Formability of AHSS
- Improved DP780 hot dip coated material with balanced global and local formability for Next Gen or Complex Designs
- Simulation of shearing induced edge/interface fracture of Hot Isostatically Pressed aluminum sheets and edge stretchability of dual phase steels
- Influence of boundary condition on sheared edge fracture of a 3rd Generation 980 MPa Steel
- Sensitivity of Springback to Material and Process Parameters: A limited simulation study
- A Practical Edge Fracture Limit for Advanced High-Strength Steel
- A Preliminary Comprehensive Map for Hole Expansion Ratio (HER) Values In Automotive Steels
- Practical methods for Predicting and Reducing Springback in Forming AHSS.
At the December 2023 meeting, we heard about many of the topics listed below.
- Improving the Reliability of the Hole Expansion Test Using Artificial Intelligence
- Automated testing and machine learning applied to sheet metal forming
- Physics-Informed Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Forming Design and Manufacturing
- AI-assisted feedback to sheet metal stamping processes for automotive applications
- Experimental Measurement of the Stress Gradient in a Bent Sheet
- Simulation of trimming of UHSS and understanding of mechanisms driving sheared edge stretchability
- In-Plane Torsion Testing and Modeling for DDQ Steel Characterization Under Large Deformations
- ANN enhanced plasticity modeling and ductile fracture characterization of commercially pure Ti
- Sustainable Steel and Coating for Hot Stamping
- Forming limit characterization of PHS1800 under hot stamping conditions, experiment and model