Considerations on the Incremental Forming of Deep Geometries

New research trends on Incremental Forming processes are strongly based on the development of more efficient control tools or design procedures, able to reduce the time associated to the preliminary setup phase. The latter, in fact, still penalises the industrial application of the above process. If adequate knowledge has been reached nowadays, thanks to the activity of several researchers all over the World, the process feasibility of complex or irregular geometries is still related to the execution of some preliminary "trial & errors" experimental tests. It seems quite obvious that more efforts have to be spent to increase the process control capability by means of innovative and generalised solutions, such as artificial intelligence techniques, neural networks, numerical simulations and so on. With this perspective, the present paper aims to improve the IF control capability for complex shapes by means of an optimised FE model.