Electromagnetic Fields Used as Cutting Tools

 

A partnership between companies like Volkswagen researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU in Chemnitz, Germany, have come up with a way to make holes in press-hardened steel bodywork using electromagnetic pulse technology. Dr. Verena Kräusel, head of department at the IWU said this method was previously used to expand or neck aluminum tubes.

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