An investigation of creep age forming of AA7B04 stiffened plates: Experiment and FE modelling
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Journal Article
Abstract
Creep age forming (CAF) of aluminium alloy 7B04 (AA7B04) stiffened plates has been experimentally and numerically investigated in this study. Creep-ageing experiments of AA7B04-T651 were conducted under different tensile stress levels at 140 °C for up to 20 h, and a set of unified constitutive equations was calibrated based on the experimental results of the evolutions of creep strain, yield strength and precipitate size, which was implemented into ABAQUS for CAF process modelling. CAF experiments and corresponding simulations of AA7B04 stiffened plates were then carried out and the effect of stiffener height and die radius on springback and yield strength was studied. It was found that the springback percentage decreases with increasing stiffener height and decreasing forming die radius, and the yield strength is slightly lower in the stiffener than in the skin of the CAFed stiffened plates due to stress effect on ageing progression. A good agreement has been achieved between experimental and corresponding FE results, with maximum deviations of 6.7% and 3.3% respectively for springback and yield strength.
Date Issued
2019-01-01
Date Acceptance
2018-11-29
Citation
Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2019, 37, pp.232-241
ISSN
1526-6125
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
232
End Page
241
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Manufacturing Processes
Volume
37
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute
Grant Number
N/A
Subjects
0910 Manufacturing Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-12-03