A Taylor Model Based Description of the proof stress of magnesium AZ31 during hot working

A series of hot-compression tests and Taylor-model simulations were carried out with the intention of developing a simple expression for the proof stress of magnesium alloy AZ31 during hot working. A crude approximation of wrought textures as a mixture of a single ideal texture component and a random background was employed. The shears carried by each deformation system were calculated using a full-constraint Taylor model for a selection of ideal orientations as well as for random textures. These shears, in combination with the measured proof stresses, were employed to estimate the critical resolved shear stresses for basal slip, prismatic slip, ⟨c+a⟩ second-order pyramidal slip, and { } twinning. The model thus established provides a semianalytical estimation of the proof stress (a one-off Taylor simulation is required) and also indicates whether or not twinning is expected. The approach is valid for temperatures between ∼150 °C and ∼450 °C, depending on the texture, strain rate, and strain path

Numerical analysis of different heating systems for warm sheet metal forming

The main goal of this study is to present an analysis of different heating methods frequently used in laboratory scale and in the industrial practice to heat blanks at warm temperatures. In this context, the blank can be heated inside the forming tools (internal method) or using a heating system (external method). In order to perform this analysis, a finite element model is firstly validated with the simulation of the direct resistance system used in a Gleeble testing machine. The predicted temperature was compared with the temperature distribution recorded experimentally and a good agreement was found. Afterwards, a finite element model is used to predict the temperature distribution in the blank during the heating process, when using different heating methods. The analysis also includes the evaluation of a cooling phase associated to the transport phase for the external heating methods. The results of this analysis show that neglecting the heating phase and a transport phase could lead to inaccuracies in the simulation of the forming phase.The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under project PTDC/EMS-TEC/1805/2012 and by FEDER funds through the program COMPETE—Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade, under the project CENTRO-07-0224-FEDER-002001 (MT4MOBI). The authors would like to thank Prof. A. Andrade-Campos for helpful contributions on the development of the finite element code presented in this work.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Crystal-plasticity finite-element analysis of deformation behavior in a commercially pure titanium sheet

NUMISHEET 2016: 10th International Conference and Workshop on Numerical Simulation of 3D Sheet Metal Forming Processes 4–9 September 2016, Bristol, United KingdomA crystal-plasticity finite-element method was used to examine the deformation mechanism in a commercially pure titanium sheet. The following tension-compression asymmetry was exhibited in the stress-strain curves: the yield stress was larger under tension than under compression, whereas the work-hardening was smaller under tension than under compression. The strain hardening behaviour was predicted qualitatively well using the crystal-plasticity analysis. The simulation results suggested that the tension-compression asymmetry could be explained in terms of the difference in the activity of the twinning systems

Crystal-plasticity finite-element simulation of time-dependent springback in a commercially-pure titanium sheet

NUMISHEET 2018: 11th International Conference and Workshop on Numerical Simulation of 3D Sheet Metal Forming Processes ; 30 July 2018 through 3 August 2018A crystal-plasticity finite-element method was used to examine the deformation mechanism of time-dependent springback in a commercially-pure titanium sheet. To reproduce the viscoplastic behavior of the sheet, the material parameters were calibrated to reproduce the strain-rate dependency of the stress-strain curve under uniaxial tension. A two-dimensional draw bending process was simulated and the change in the sidewall curvature was evaluated. The simulation results showed that the curvature increased with the elapsed time after unloading, consistent with experimental results reported elsewhere. The deformation mechanism during the process was discussed in terms of evolution of stress and relative activities of slip and twinning systems