Fine Piercing of Amorphous Electrical Steel Sheet Stack by Micro-/Nano-Textured Punch

The periodic nanotexture was superposed to the micro-textured grooves on the side surface of the punch. These grooves with nanotextures were shaped to have parallel and vertical orientations to the punch stroke direction, respectively. A stack of five amorphous electrical steel sheets was punched out with these micro-/nano-textured punches. The process affected zone at the vicinity of the punched hole was analyzed by SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) and a three-dimensional profilometer. The punch surfaces were also observed by SEM to describe the debris particle adhesion on them. The dimensional change in each layer of the stack before and after perforation was measured to describe the punching behavior with the comparison to the punch diameter.