DESIGN OF PRESS TOOLS

Steps

- Force required for the operation

- Selection of press
- Shut height
- Die thickness and margins
- Strip layouts
- Locating elements
- Selection of hardware
- Die set
- Punch length and mounting
- Centre of pressure and scrap disposal
- Drawing details

Determination of Force
Press tools shear off the required work pieces from the strip.
 Yield strength is a material property and is the stress corresponding to the yield point at which the
material begins to deform plastically.

Plastic deformation is the ability of a solid material to undergo permanent deformation, a non-
reversible change of shape in response to applied forces.

Material Yield Strength fy

(N/mm2)
Structural steel 300
IS C45,C40,St50,St58
Electrical stamping steel 350
Aluminium 400
Brass (60%Cu,40%Zn) 420
Copper 260
Magnesium 220
Nickel 610
Silicon bronze 480

Rollover - When the punch impacts the sheet, the clearance between the punch & die allows the sheet to
plastically deform and "rollover" the edge.
 As the tool penetrates the sheet further, the shearing results in a vertical burnished zone of material.

Ultimate tensile strength (UTS), often shortened to tensile strength (TS), ultimate strength is the
maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before breaking.

Brittle materials the ultimate tensile strength is close to the yield point

Ductile materials the ultimate tensile strength can be higher.

Material Ultimate Tensile

Strength ft (N/mm2)
Structural steel 620
IS C45,C40,St50,St58
Electrical stamping steel 800
Aluminium 520
Brass (60%Cu,40%Zn) 580
Copper 450
Magnesium 290
Nickel 850
Silicon bronze 980
 The cracks take place when the punch has penetrated about 40% of sheet thickness.

Further motion of the punch only pushes the fractured piece through the die.

Shear strength is a material property that describes a material’s resistance against a

shear load before the component fails in shear.

Material Ultimate Shear Strength

fs (N/mm2)
Structural steel 400
IS C45,C40,St50,St58
Electrical stamping steel 530
Aluminium 280
Brass (60%Cu,40%Zn) 310
Copper 230
Magnesium 160
Nickel 400
Silicon bronze 480