The relation between residual stress and tensile strain is an important factor for evaluating plastic formation grade of steel sheet. The degree of plastic deformation (Δl) and elastic recovery (δ) were obtained by measuring the length of DP600 steel sheet sample under different tensile test conditions, i.e. five tensile strains (ε). Furthermore, the average residual stress value in the surface middle (the diameter of 10 mm) region of above tensile samples was analyzed by x-ray diffraction (XRD) in the crystal plane of (211). By processing the diffraction peak angle (2θ) with half width high method (FWHM), the relationship between sin2(ψ) and diffraction angle is attained by least squares method. On this basis, a mathematical model was established to correlate the tensile strain with the residual stress in the present study. The results show that the residual stress decreases and the elastic recovery increases with the increase of tensile strain (ε≤0.205). The relation between residual stress and tensile strain can be described with an exponential function . Finally, a function of tensile strain, elastic recovery and surface residual stress is established, by which a reasonable forming condition, viz. ε=0.205, δ=2.65 mm is determined for achieving the smallest σψ.
Effects of Residual Stress on Hydrogen Embrittlement of a Stretch-Formed Tempered Martensitic Steel Sheet
