“BelMag” Scientific and Production Corporation (Magnitogorsk, Russia):

I. G. Gun, Dr. Eng., Prof., General Director
D. A. Pesterev, Leading Product Design Engineer, Design Engineering Dept., e-mail: pesterev@belmag.ru

Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (Magnitogorsk, Russia):

I. Yu. Mezin, Dr. Eng., Prof., Head the Chair of Automobile Technology, Certification and Service
I. A. Mikhailovsky, Dr. Eng., Associate Prof., the Chair of Automobile Technology, Certification and Service

E. G. Kasatkina, Cand. Eng., Associate Prof., the Chair of Automobile Technology, Certification and Service

The modern companies manufacturing products for automotive industry more and more often use innovative methods of mathematical simulation. Such methods allow to cut essentially temporal and financial expenses for designing of constructions and corresponding production technologies, as well as to minimize risks of fabrication of reject products [1–4]. Especial attention is paid to the processes and operations forming functional and technological parameters of manufactured products, as well as safety characteristics [5, 6]. Forming of an integral assembly mainly using plastic deformation via rolling-up is considered as such operation applying to production processes of ball joints. This direction is examined not very good, despite its relevance. Review of open-access sources has revealed presence of the one mathematical model for forming of integral assembly [7]. This well-known mathematical model has several substantial disadvantages that can be removed taking into account up-to-date level of scientific knowledge in the field of simulation. Thereby the aim of the current work can be formulated as follows: development and verification of the mathematical model for forming of integral assemblies of ball joints using plastic deformation via rolling-up.

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