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Effect of tensile pre-strain on bending and unloading of automotive steels

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Matthias WeissMatthias Weiss, A Kupke, Bernard RolfeBernard Rolfe
In recent years, advanced high strength steels (AHSS) have been used in a wide range of automotive applications; they may have property variations through the thickness and the properties may also be dependent of prior processing including pre-straining. In order to model forming processes precisely using, for example, finite element analysis, it is important that material input data should adequately reflect these effects. It is known that shape defects in roll forming are related to small strains in material that has undergone prior deformation in a different strain path. Much research has already been performed on the change in the Young’s Modulus once a steel sheet has been plastically deformed,however many of these tests have only been conducted using tensile testing, and therefore may not take into account differences in compressive and tensile unloading. This research investigates the effect of tensile pre-straining on bending behaviour for various types of material;in bending, one half of the sheet will load and unload in compression and hence experience deformation under a reversed stress. Four different materials were pre-strained in tension with 1%, 3%, 7%, 11% and 25% elongation. Using a free bending test, moment curvature diagrams were obtained for bending and unloading. The results showed that the characteristics of the moment curvature diagram depended on the degree of pre-straining; more highly strained samples showed an earlier elastic-plastic transformation and a decreased Young's Modulus during unloading. This was compared to previous literature results using only tensile tests. Our results could influence the modeling of springback in low tension sheet operations, such as roll forming.

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Event

International Deep Drawing Research Group. Conference (2012 : Mumbai, India)

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409 - 415

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International Deep-Drawing Research Group

Location

Mumbai, India

Place of publication

Mumbai, India

Start date

2012-11-25

End date

2012-11-29

Language

eng

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E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

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2012, International Deep-Drawing Research Group

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IDDRG 2012 : Lightweighting, possibilities & challenges : Proceedings of the 2012 International Deep Drawing Research Group Conference

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