Effect of the thickness reduction of specimens on the limit strains in thermomechanical tensile tests for hot-stamping studies
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Author(s)
Lane, C
Shao, Z
Zheng, K
Lin, J
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Sheet metal formability under hot stamping conditions has been evaluated using a novel planar testing system developed previously, being used within a Gleeble machine. Nevertheless, the specimen design with the central recess was not standardised, and the thickness reduction was not applied to the dog-bone type of specimen for testing at the uniaxial straining state. In this paper, effect of thickness reduction of dog-bone specimens on limit strain measurement under hot stamping conditions is investigated, and two types of dog-bone specimens without and with central recess are presented. Thermomechanical uniaxial tensile tests were performed at various deformation temperatures and strain rates, ranging from 370-510 °C and 0.01-1/s, respectively, by using the developed biaxial testing system in the Gleeble. The distributions of temperature and axial strain along gauge region of the two types of specimen were measured and compared. The specimen with consistent thickness had a better uniformity of temperature and strain distributions, compared to that with thickenss reduction. Forming limits for both types of specimen were also determined using the section-based international standard method. It is found that the accuracy of the calculation of forming limits based on the use of specimen with thickness reduction was highly dependent on the selection of the stage of the deformation of the specimen.
Date Issued
2018-09-14
Date Acceptance
2018-07-04
Citation
Manufacturing Review, 2018, 5
ISSN
2265-4224
Publisher
EDP Open
Journal / Book Title
Manufacturing Review
Volume
5
Copyright Statement
© 2018 C. Lane et al., Published by EDP Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
723517
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
11
Date Publish Online
2018-09-14