Mechanical behavior of an asymmetrically rolled and annealed 1050-O sheet

In this work, 1050-O aluminum alloy sheets are asymmetrically rolled and annealed. The asymmetric rolling process imposes intense shear deformations across the sheet thickness, leading to the development of shear texture and also grain refinement. The shear texture obtained is found to be retained after annealing. The improvements of the mechanical response and the texture evolution after heat treatment processing are inferred based on experimental shear tests and numerical simulations. It is proven that it is difficult to spread shear texture through the entire sheet thickness from a general asymmetric rolling process. Based on the fact, future research is discussed at closure. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.X1121sciescopu

Simulation of a two-slope pyramid made by SPIF using an adaptive remeshing method with solid-shell finite element

Single point incremental forming (SPIF) is an emerging application in sheet metal prototyping and small batch production, which enables dieless production of sheet metal parts. This research area has grown in the last years, both experimentally and numerically. However, numerical investigations into SPIF process need further improvement to predict the formed shape correctly and faster than current approaches. The current work aims the use of an adaptive remeshing technique, originally developed for shell and later extended to 3D “brick” elements, leading to a Reduced Enhanced Solid-Shell formulation. The CPU time reduction is a demanded request to perform the numerical simulations. A two-slope pyramid shape is used to carry out the numerical simulation and modelling. Its geometric difficulty on the numerical shape prediction and the through thickness stress behaviour are the main analysis targets in the present work. This work confirmed a significant CPU time reduction and an acceptable shape prediction accuracy using an adaptive remeshing method combined with the selected solid-shell element. The stress distribution in thickness direction revealed the occurrence of bending/unbending plus stretching and plastic deformation in regions far from the local deformation in the tool vicinity