Abstract: In cold roll forming process, the sheet is progressively formed into a very complex three dimensional surface. The design procedure for the roll formed products, forming rolls, and roll pass sequences was considered more an art than a science. Good roll pass design was the key to successful roll forming. In order to reduce forming defects and trial production cost, computer simulation of cold roll forming was employed. Based on the Updated-Lagrange method in the deformation mechanics, a theoretical model of elastic-plastic large deformation spline finite strip method is proposed in this paper. The method is employed to analyze the progressive forming process of non-symmetrical section, and the displacement, the stress and the strain along rolling direction during the multiple cold rolls forming process are got. This program written in C Language can be used to analyze other simple cross sectional profiles also.

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