Systemic analysis of the caulking assembly process

Claudiu Rodean,Livia Dana Beju,Paul Dan Brindasu,I Bondrea,C Simion,M Inţă

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201712103019

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https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201712103019

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Journal: MATEC Web of Conferences	Publication Date: Jan 1, 2017
Citations: 1	License type: cc-by

Affiliation: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Abstract

The present paper highlights the importance of a caulking process which is nowadays less studied in comparison with the growing of its usage in the automotive industry. Due to the fact that the caulking operation is used in domains with high importance such as shock absorbers and brake systems there comes the demand of this paper to detail the parameters which characterize the process, viewed as input data and output data, and the requirements asked for the final product. The paper presents the actual measurement methods used for analysis the performance of the caulking assembly. All this parameters leads to an analysis algorithm of performance established for the caulking process which it is used later in the paper for an experimental research. The study is a basis from which it will be able to go to further researches in order to optimize the following processing.

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Nowadays technologies require fast and efficient processing which ensure high quality and low costs in addition with the process safety
The analysis done before was applied to an experimental research
The paper highlights the caulking process as a systemic process

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Nowadays technologies require fast and efficient processing which ensure high quality and low costs in addition with the process safety. Among the operations that ensure these needs it’s included the caulking process. Caulking operation is an advanced process used to obtain permanent assemblies in various fields such as: automotive, aeronautics, medical or energy. Caulking is the deformation operation which consists of tightening press of a piece of material around another to avoid their relative movement (Fig 1). Part 2 is placed on Part 1 and a caulking tool strikes Part 1 in order to deform an amount of material in such a way, that the resulting assembly becomes non-removable. Examples of domains where the caulking process is used are the brake systems (Fig. 2) and the shock absorbers (Fig. 3)

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