Rubber pad forming is a sheet forming process in which one or more product related molds.
Rubber pad forming process pdf.
Up to 60 of all sheet metal parts in aircraft industry such as frames seat parts ribs windows and doors are fabricated using rubber pad forming processes.
During the rubber pad forming process the punch deforms the blank and apply large pressure 100 mpa over the blank.
The form block height is usually less than 100 mm 2 in the rubber pad forming process an aluminum blank is placed between a die and a rubber pad flexible punch which is held in a container to enclose the flexible punch figure 1a.
The rubber pads can have a general purpose shape like a membrane.
1 where several process steps like forming cutting or embossing can be carried out in one process step.
The die is placed on lower bed and top of that soft die of rubber is placed.
The rubber pad is confined in a steel container.
Rubber pad forming rpf is a metalworking process where sheet metal is pressed between a die and a rubber block made of polyurethane under pressure the rubber and sheet metal are driven into the die and conform to its shape forming the part.
The operations are 1 the guerin process and 2 hydro forming guerin process the guerin process uses a thick rubber pad or other flexible material to form sheet metal over a positive form block as in figure 20 28.
Rubber forming adopts a rubber pad contained in a rigid box in which one of the tools die or punch is replaced by the rubber pad.