A dynamic programming approach for minimizing the number of drawing stages and heat treatments in cylindrical shell multi-stage deep drawing
- Citation:
- Abdelmaguid, T. F., R. K. Abdel-Magied, M. Shazly, and A. S. Wifi, "A dynamic programming approach for minimizing the number of drawing stages and heat treatments in cylindrical shell multi-stage deep drawing", Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, no. 2003, Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 1–6, October, 2011.
Date Presented:
October, 2011Abstract:
In this paper, the problem of minimizing the number of drawing stages and heat treatments needed for the multi-stage deep drawing of cylindrical shells is addressed. A conventional rule-based computer-aided process planning (CAPP) is utilized within a dynamic programming approach to generate a set of alternative optimal process plans. A finite element analysis is carried out to guide the selection of the appropriate process parameters and to verify the applicability of the selected process plans. A case study is presented to demonstrate the developed approach, and the results suggest that the combination of rulebased CAPP, dynamic programming and finite element validation could be a valuable, reliable and quick computer aided process planning approach to this complicated problem.