Influence of strain rate on tensile properties and fracture behaviour of DP600 and DP780 dual-phase steels

The influences of the strain rate on the tensile properties and fracture behaviour of DP600 and DP780 advanced high-strength sheet steels have been studied. The variation of their mechanical properties depending on the strain rate have been researched by applying uniaxial tensile tests at three different strain rates (0.001, 0.01, 0.06?s^?1). The influences of strain rate on fracture behaviour have been investigated by displaying the fracture surfaces of the material. Strain rate increase has been determined to increase the yield strength, tensile strength, total elongation and hardening rate. The strain hardening coefficient has been found not to be significantly affected by the strain rate. It has been determined that, the fracture has occurred faster during necking while load-carrying capacity has increased with strain rate increase.     

Whole Field Strain Measurement of High Strength Steel Under Plain Strain Condition

Sheet metal undergoes different strain conditions during different forming processes.The investigation of mechanical properties under these conditions is very important in the forming techniques.Sheet metal is particularly liable to failure under plain strain state.Measure and investigate the necking strain under plane strain condition is a particularly important study for sheet formability forecasting.In this study,material behavior of DP780 high strength steel sheet under plain strain condition was studied.Conventional plane strain tensile tests were carried out on the MTS testing machine with a special designed specimen.A digital image correlation system was employed to measure the full-field strain distribution during plain strain tensile test.The strain evolution during deformation was obtained and investigated.The capability of the specimen for plane strain test was validated from the strain distributions.The necking strain and fracture strain of DP780 high strength steel sheet were determined from the strain field and strain history results.     

Determination of crash‐relevant material parameters by dynamic tensile tests

The mechanical properties of eight different steels, representing the wide range of steels for automotive application, are determined by accomplishing high speed tensile tests using flat sheet specimens. The steels chosen for investigations are deep drawing grade DC04, high strength steel ZStE340, three dual phase steels with strengths of 600, 800 and 1000 MPa, a TRIP steel and two austenitic stainless steels 1.4301 and 1.4318. Tests are carried out at five different strain rates within the range of 5‐10^?3 and 200 s^?1, all at room temperature. The results show different strain rate sensitivities according to the different grades of steel. The TRIP steel and both stainless steels show a great potential for energy consumption, when tested at high strain rates.     

Localized Necking of Sheet at Negative Minor Strains

Localized necking in sheet metal has been examined for strain paths between uniaxial tension and plane strain (i.e., the negative minor strain region of a forming limit diagram). The behavior of sheet with preexisting imperfections has been analyzed and is contrasted to that free of imperfections. In particular, it is shown that the size and orientation of an imperfection is critical in determining whether or not localized necking is initiated along the imperfection. The influence of strain hardening, strain rate hardening, and plastic anisotropy on localized necking of an imperfect sheet is also examined. One of the most significant conclusions obtained from present analysis and from a reexamination of Hill’s theory is the prediction of a critical thickness strain criterion for the onset of localized necking at negative minor strains, regardless of whether or not an imperfection is present. The critical thickness strain criterion is observed in Ti alloys, Al alloys, steels, and brass. Formerly with the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University.     

Mechanical properties of ultra-high-strength steels at elevated temperatures

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an experimental study on the mechanical properties of ultra-high-strength steels at elevated temperatures. Tensile tests were carried out at 300–600°C on Docol 1200M and Docol 1400M steel samples. The results indicate that as the temperature increases Young’s Modulus, yield strength (YS) and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) display a decrease. YS/UTS ratios at 300°C are lower than those at room temperature, they make peaks at 400 and 500°C for Docol 1400M and Docol 1200M, respectively, and then decrease again beyond those temperatures. While total elongation continuously increases, uniform elongation slightly decreases with increasing temperature. Present carbides in tempered matrix continue to grow and new carbides are observed at the grain boundaries. Considering all roll forming parameters, 300°C seems the most convenient temperature for warm forming. In this sense, the warm roll forming has a potential for forming complex-shaped parts by reconciling strength with formability.     

冲击载荷下低屈服比高强钢板的拉伸性能

通过室温下的仪器化冲击试验和静态拉伸试验,研究一种低屈服比高强度钢板在冲击载荷下的力学性能和断裂机理.结果表明:试验钢的组织由细小岛状马氏体与针状铁素体为主构成,马氏体体积分数为27.6%.与静态拉伸性能相比,在名义应变速率为100 s-1的冲击载荷作用下,试验用钢屈服强度提高31.6%,延伸率不降低.在静态和动态载荷下,该钢均以显微空洞长大聚集的方式发生韧性断裂,但显微空洞的形核和长大方式不同.在静态载荷下,显微空洞形核于颈缩区的铁素体晶粒内部或铁素体-马氏体两相界面处,空洞主要通过两相界面的脱开而形成长大;在动态载荷下,显微空洞主要形核于颈缩区的两相界面处,空洞主要通过马氏体粒子的开裂而形成长大.     

无取向Fe-3.3%Si钢带材温拉伸变形行为分析

利用电子试验机对热轧后Fe-3.3%Si钢开展了温度范围为250~700 ℃及应变速率为0.001~0.1 s-1的单向拉伸试验,并对其拉伸后断口形貌和微观组织进行了观测与分析。结果表明,随着变形温度的升高,抗拉强度显著降低,伸长率呈指数增加;变形温度较低时,材料发生明显的加工硬化,非均匀塑性变形阶段较短,温度升高至550 ℃时,材料发生了明显的动态回复和动态再结晶;拉伸速率较低时断口存在明显的韧窝,与低温时发生的剪切断裂相比,温度较高时,韧窝基本与拉伸方向一致,属于拉伸断裂;变形速率较高时,断口出现部分河流花样准解理断裂,解理面由表面到芯部逐渐分层,形成了解理台阶或撕裂棱,多层解理面之间存在部分韧窝;拉伸过程中芯部变形量大,组织主要表现为变形带,温度较低时,表面组织为被拉长的晶粒,变形温度较高时,表面有大量的等轴晶。研究结果对硅钢温变形组织性能控制及温轧工艺制定和优化具有重要理论意义。     

Comparative Study on Failure Prediction in Warm Forming Processes of Mg Alloy Sheet by the FEM and Ductile Fracture Criteria

An important concern in metal forming is whether the desired deformation can be accomplished without any failure of the material, even at elevated temperatures. This paper describes the utilization of ductile fracture criteria in conjunction with the finite element (FE) method for predicting the onset of fracture in warm metal working processes of magnesium alloy sheets. The uniaxial tensile tests of AZ31 alloy sheets with a thickness of 3 mm and FE simulations were performed to calculate the critical damage values for three kinds of ductile fracture criteria. The critical damage values for each criterion were expressed as the function of strain rate at various temperatures. In order to find out the best criterion for failure prediction, Erichsen cupping tests under isothermal conditions were carried out at various temperatures and punch velocities. Based on the plastic deformation histories obtained from FE analysis of the Erichsen cupping tests and the critical damage value curves, the initiation time and location of fracture were predicted under bi-axial tensile conditions. As a result, Cockcroft–Latham’s criterion showed good agreement with the experiments.     

Shear Fracture of Advanced High Strength Steels

Failure experiments were carried out through a stretch-bending test system for advanced high strength steels, i.e. dual-phase （DP） steels and martensitic steels （MS）. The die radius in this system was designed from 1 to 15 mm to investigate the failure mode under different geometries. Two failure modes were observed during the ex- periments. As a result, critical relative radii （the ratio of inner bending radius R to sheet thickness t） for DP590 and DP780 steels were obtained. The stretch-bending tests of DP980 display some trends unlike DP590 and DP780 steels, and curve of DP980 in different thicknesses does not coincide well. High blank holder force exhibits more possibility of shear fracture tendency than low blank holder force. The unique character of high strength martensitic steel （1500MS） is that no shear fracture is found especially over small bending radius （R =2 mm） under the same experi- mental conditions. Microstructure analysis indicates that there are obviously elongated grains on shear fracture sur- face. It shows smaller diameter and shallower depth of the dimples than the necking failure.     

退火温度对铜/铝异步冷轧复合带组织与拉伸性能的影响

采用异步冷轧复合工艺制备铜/铝复合带,研究轧后退火温度和拉伸应变速率对复合界面组织和力学性能的影响.利用扫描电镜观察界面显微组织和拉伸断口形貌,并通过线扫描分析界面元素分布,进行不同应变速率的拉伸实验研究复合带的力学性能.结果表明,较高的退火温度可促进界面扩散层的生长,在350℃时形成三层结构;退火温度的提高使复合带抗拉强度减小而延伸率增大,应变速率的提高使抗拉强度和延伸率均增大,但在退火温度超过350℃后增幅减小;退火温度和应变速率越大,复合带拉伸断口的开裂程度越大,复合界面的过渡作用越弱.     

Prediction and Experimental Validation of Forming Limit Curve of a Quenched and Partitioned Steel

Forming limit curve(FLC)is an effective tool to evaluate the formability of sheet metals.An accurate FLC prediction for a sheet metal is beneficial to its engineering application.A quenched and partitioned steel,known as QP980,is one of the 3rd generation advanced high strength steels and is composed of martensite,ferrite and a considerable amount of retained austenite(RA).Martensite transformation from RA induced by deformation,namely,transformation induced plasticity(TRIP),promotes the capability of work hardening and consequently formability.Nakazima tests were carried out to obtain the experimental forming limit strains with the aid of digital image correlation techniques.Scanning electron microscopy(SEM)was employed to examine the fracture morphologies of Nakazima specimens of the QP980 steel.The observed dimple pattern indicated that tensile stress was the predominant factor which led to failure of QP980 specimens.Therefore,maximum tensile stress criterion(MTSC)was adopted as the forming limit criterion.To predict the FLC of QP980 steel,Von-Mises yield criterion and power hardening law were adopted according to the tested mechanical properties of QP980 steel.Results were compared with those derived from other three representative instability theories,e.g.Hill criterion,Storen-Rice vertex theory and Bressan-Williams model,which shows that the MTSC based FLC is in better agreement with the experimental results.     

Deformation and fracture of strongly textured Ti alloy sheets in uniaxial tension

The influence of crystallographic texture on the deformation and fracture behavior of strongly textured Ti alloy sheet has been investigated. Uniaxial tensile tests have been performed on Ti-6A1-4V and Ti-5A1-2.5 Sn sheet with both a basal and a basal-transverse texture. The results indicate that, by controlling the ease of through-thickness slip, the crystallographic texture strongly affects the plastic anisotropy of the material but has relatively little effect on the strain-rate sensitivity and work-hardening rates at large strains. A strong resistance to through-thickness slip, manifested by a high R-value, enhances the post-uniform elongation and the ability of the material to retain the load-carrying capacity beyond maximum load. This behavior can be qualitatively understood in terms of the effect of R on the hardening which occurs as the strain state within the diffuse neck shifts from uniaxial tension toward plane strain. A higher R-value also increases significantly the limit strain at the onset of localized necking as well as the fracture strain. The effects of R-value on the limit strain can be qualitatively understood in terms of a critical thickness strain criterion and can be quantitatively predicted by two analyses, one of which assumes an imperfection to be present while the other does not. Formerly Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Technological University     

Influence of grain size on the low-cycle fatigue lives of austenitic stainless steels at high temperatures

The influence of grain size on the fatigue lives was investigated for eight kinds of austenitic stainless steels with the grain size numbers from 9 to 1. Fatigue tests were carried out at 600 and 700 °C under triangular wave shapes at strain rates of 6.7 × 10^-3/s and 6.7 × 10^-5/s, respectively, and under truncated wave shape with 30 m;n hold-time at tension side. When a strain rate was 6.7 × 10^-3/s at both 600 and 700 °C, the fracture modes were always transgranular, and the fatigue lives scarcely depended on the type of steels or the grain size. When a strain rate was 6.7 × 10^-5/s at 600 °C, the fracture modes changed from a dominantly transgranular mode to a completely intergranular one and the fatigue lives decreased with decreasing the grain size number. When a strain rate was 6.7 X 10^-5/sVs at 700 °C, grain size dependence of the fatigue lives was divided into two groups of the steels depending on the type of steel. The fracture modes of some types of the steel were completely intergranular, and others mixed. In hold-time tests, the grain size dependence of the fatigue lives was similar to that in the tests of triangular wave shape at a strain rate of 6.7 × 10^-5/s.     

The influence of strain rate dependent work hardening on the necking strain in α-titanium at elevated temperatures

Titanium has a “blue brittle” effect like that observed in steels. At the temperature of minimum ductility, the neck in the tensile specimen is very sharply defined. Above the blue brittle temperature, the tensile elongation of this metal undergoes a very significant increase that is due to the development of a diffuse neck. Diffuse necks are also observed in superplasticity. However, the conditions that cause the diffuse neck above the blue brittle temperature in titanium are different from those encountered in superplasticity. In superplasticity, the necking phenomenon is associated with a direct dependence of the flow stress on the strain rate, whereas in the present case it is primarily due to rate dependent work hardening associated with dynamic strain aging.     

Strain Effect on the Microstructure,Mechanical Properties and Fracture Characteristics of a TWIP Steel Sheet

Twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steels are a highly promising group of steels for the production of complex structural components in cold forming operations for car body manufacturing. In this work, the effect of cold rolling strain on the microstructure, mechanical properties and fracture characteristics of a TWIP steel sheet used for automobile body structure was studied by means of optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, electron back-scattered diffraction technique, microhardness measurement, tensile test and fractography. TWIP steel sheets were cold rolled with reductions of 0, 15 and 30%. An increase of the cold rolling strain led to an increase of deformation twinning activity in certain favourably oriented grains and resulted in significant increase in ultimate tensile strength and hardness of TWIP steel. However, the ductility of TWIP steel significantly decreased with increasing degree of cold rolling strain. The increase in the ultimate tensile strength was almost linear with the increase in cold rolling strain. After cold rolling reduction of 30%, the ultimate tensile strength increased by approximately 50%, whereas the elongation decreased by approximately 85%. The size and depth of the dimples in the fracture surface decreased with the increase of the twin boundaries at 30% cold rolling strain, leading to highly limited plasticity through the tensile testing.     

1300 MPa级Nb微合金化DH钢的组织性能

设计了不同相构成的超高强DH钢,抗拉强度均大于1300 MPa,组织由铁素体、马氏体、残留奥氏体和极少量碳化物构成。对比了不同相构成对超高强DH钢力学性能和应变硬化行为等的影响,并深入研究了残留奥氏体在超高强度DH钢中的作用机制。结果表明:随着马氏体和残留奥氏体体积分数的增大,铁素体体积分数的减小,实验钢屈服和抗拉强度同时升高,而延伸率呈先增大后减小趋势。软韧相铁素体体积分数的减小和硬相马氏体体积分数的增大导致屈服强度和抗拉强度增加。相对于回火马氏体,淬火马氏体对强度的提升更显著,在拉伸过程中转变的残留奥氏体的量是引起延伸率变化的主要原因,组织中显著的带状组织会造成颈缩后延伸率的明显降低。通过对应变硬化行为的分析表明,随着真应变的增大,应变硬化率呈减小的趋势,在真应变大于2%后的大范围内,对于应变硬化率,DH1>DH2>DH3,主要与铁素体体积分数有关;在真应变大于5.73%后,DH2钢的应变硬化率高于DH1钢和DH3钢,主要与DH2钢中更显著的TRIP效应有关。除了残留奥氏体体积分数,残留奥氏体中的碳含量对TRIP效应同样有显著的影响。较高比例的硬相马氏体组织结合适当比例的软韧相铁素体和残留奥氏体有助于DH2钢获得最良好的强塑积13.17 GPa·%,其中屈服强度达880 MPa,抗拉强度达1497 MPa,均匀延伸率为6.71%,总伸长率为8.8%,颈缩后延伸率为2.09%,屈强比0.59。      

An analysis of the nonisothermal tensile test

An analysis of the uniaxial tensile test which includes the effects of heat generation and transfer on flow behavior is presented. The analysis is based on the solution of modified versions of the onedimensional force equilibrium and heat conduction equations, subject to the appropriate boundary conditions. The stress biaxiality or triaxiality developed during necking is taken into account by including a Bridgman correction in the equilibrium expression. In order to obtain solutions of the coupled deformation-heat transfer problem, the governing equations were discretized to enable numerical calculations using a finite-difference scheme. The accuracy of the analysis was confirmed by comparison of model predictions with experimental data from nonisothermal tensile tests on 1008 aluminum-killed sheet steel. These and other simulations lead to the conclusion that temperature effects are most important following the onset of necking. The development of temperature gradients during necking can substantially decrease the tensile elongation and mitigate the stabilizing influence of positive strain rate sensitivity.     

高强TRIP钢的动态力学性能

将Si-Mn系双相钢（DP钢）作为对比钢种,分析研究了高应变速率下600 MPa级Si-Mn系TRIP钢及含Al、Ni的1000 MPa级TRIP钢的显微组织及其动态力学性能.对DP钢而言,其抗拉强度随着应变速率的增大而升高,断裂延伸率则由于绝热温升的作用也呈上升趋势;对TRIP钢而言,随着应变速率的增大,其抗拉强度不断增大,断裂延伸率先减小后增大,但无法达到其静态拉伸时的塑性水平,这是由于在动态拉伸条件下奥氏体向马氏体的渐进式转变被抑制造成的.此外,在相同应变速率下测得的TRIP钢的绝热温升始终比DP钢高,而这部分高出的热量应当来自于在动态变形条件下TRIP钢中发生TRIP效应后释放的相变潜热.      

时效温度对马氏体时效不锈钢延迟断裂行为的影响

借助于缺口慢拉伸试验研究了马氏体时效不锈钢延迟断裂倾向对时效温度的敏感性。研究结果表明,正常冶炼和加工的材料氢的质量分数在2×10-6以下,420和440℃欠时效处理的试样仍发生氢致延迟断裂;而460℃以上时效的缺口试样慢拉伸(0.001 5mm/min)的抗拉强度和断裂行为类似于快拉伸(0.15mm/min),即不发生延迟断裂。     

Strain hardening at high strain in aluminum alloys and its effect on strain localization

The modes of strain localization in the tensile testing of a sheet sample are diffuse necking, localized necking and, in some materials, localization in an unstable shear band. In a tensile test of a rate insensitive material, the normalized strain hardening parameter,H = (1/σ)(dσ/dε) has the values ofH = 1 for diffuse necking andH = 0.5 for localized necking. Curves ofH vs strain were obtained up to large values of plastic strain using the hydraulic bulge test. The materials selected were commercially important sheet alloys in the condition normally used for forming. It is shown that the materials have similarH vs strain curves in the range of uniform tensile straining, but the curves diverge widely at higher strains whereH falls below 1. This has important consequences on strain localization behavior. The limit strains of the alloys in simple tension and punch stretching show reasonable correlation with their values ofH and those alloys which are susceptible to catastrophic shear failure have low values ofH at high strains. Strain rate sensitivity adds to or subtracts from theH values obtained in this study and has an additional influence on strain localization. Formerly with Alcoa Laboratories, Alcoa Center, PA 15069, U.S.A