Investigation of the deep drawability of steel and aluminum sheets by finite element simulation

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Sheet metal forming processes, especially deep drawing processes give diverse results by various materials. Extreme differences occur between steel sheets and aluminum sheets. The main causes of this variance are anisotropy, elastic modulus and microscopic material properties. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the deep drawing properties and also to develop suitable process parameters for aluminum and steel sheets by finite element simulation. In the simulation, the commercial dynamic-explicit code PAM-STAMP has been used. The reliability of the finite element package was verified by a comparison with the NUMISHEET 2002 benchmarks. Additionally, a commercial part is numerically simulated for experimental verification. The results of the simulations have been compared with several experiments that were performed in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments. Finally, the simulation results are compared with analytical expressions for verification of results. The materials investigated for the deep drawability comparison is a deep drawing quality mild steel and an aluminum alloy designated as 6111-T4. For experimental verification St4 steel is used. Results are in agreement with the fact that aluminum and steel materials behave differently upon deep drawing in terms of the onset of failure, wrinkling and final shape. Aluminum is found to be less formable than steel for cup drawing operations.

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Mechanics of Materials.

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Ç. Sönmez, “Investigation of the deep drawability of steel and aluminum sheets by finite element simulation,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.