Your question is very general, I assume you are after finding out about the cutting clearances (measurable distance between upper knife and lower knife, in relation to material type and thickness) required for cutting non ferrous materials?
While there is much reading material about die design fundamanetals, there is nothing like some experience to add to that. If you wish to learn much about die design, then there is one (1) excellent but time-consuming method to use.
One can work as a junior engineer or toolmaker's apprentice in a shop that not only designs and builds its own dies, but uses them on-site for stamping runs. Remember, not every die is successful upon a full test, even though all design fundamentals were covered. For dies used to produce things of a coarse tolerance range, things are quite easy. It is those dies used to produce parts of more exacting standards that are more difficult to design and maintain, and usually require minor reworks to function properly.
And, even though a die design is proven to work, there are always areas for improvement. In other words; would the use of tungsten carbide sections be better in some parts of the die? How about treating the components with a cold-vapour cubic boron nitride deposit? In other words; at what point will these improvements be cost effective, if they will be at all? Dies are very nearly "living things" when it comes to their true performance.
SHEET METAL (CU,PB ,BRASS)
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