Fracture Prediction in Sheet Metal Stamping Based on a Modified Ductile Fracture Criterion

2015 ◽  
Vol 639 ◽  
pp. 543-550
Author(s):  
Rong Zeng ◽  
Liang Huang ◽  
Jian Jun Li

Sheet metal stamping is an important manufacturing process because of its high production rate and low cost, so the fracture prediction of stamping parts has become important issues. Recent experimental studies have shown that the quality of stamping parts can be increased by using ductile fracture criteria. This paper proposed a modified ductile fracture criterion based on the macroscopic and microscopic continuum damage mechanics (CDM). Three-dimensional (3D) explicit finite element analysis (FEA) are performed to predict the fracture behaviors of sheet metal stamping process. An approach to determine the material constants of modified ductile fracture criterion is presented with the help of uniaxial tensile tests and compressive tests. The results show that the modified ductile fracture criterion enables precise cup depth and fracture location of sheet metal stamping under nonlinear paths. Compared with typical ductile fracture criteria, the results predicted with modified ductile fracture criterion correlate the best with the experimental data.

Author(s):  
Sergei Alexandrov ◽  
Lihui Lang

This paper deals with some general properties of a ductile fracture criterion, which generalizes two ductile fracture criteria conventionally adopted for metal forming analysis and design. The results are valid for a wide class of material models applicable to both cold and hot metal formings. It is expected that the theoretical features of the fracture criterion emphasized in the present paper can be useful for its experimental verification or for determining its parameters from the experiment.


2012 ◽  
Vol 482-484 ◽  
pp. 1947-1950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Guang Liu ◽  
Wei Liu

Seven commonly used ductile fracture criteria are briefly reviewed and the validity of predicting the failure of AZ31 Mg alloy sheet by using these ductile fracture criteria is evaluated. Through fitting the experimental FLCs, the damage parameters for these ductile fracture criteria are determined firstly. Integrating these seven ductile fracture criteria into Abaqus/Explicit via VUMAT subroutine, the warm deep drawing process of AZ31 Mg alloy sheet is simulated. The limit drawing ratios (LDR) of AZ31 Mg alloy sheet at different temperature are predicted. The comparison of predictions with the experimental results has shown that the combination of the finite element simulation and the ductile fracture criterion is useful for predicting the fracture occurred in warm deepdrawing of AZ31 Mg alloy sheet.


2011 ◽  
Vol 264-265 ◽  
pp. 813-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Woo Kim ◽  
Young Seon Lee ◽  
Beom Soo Kang

In this work, in order to predict the forming failure of AZ31 magnesium alloy sheet in drawing process at elevated temperatures, a series of square cup tests at various temperatures and FE analyses were carried out. The critical damage values and the mechanical properties dependent on strain rates and temperatures were evaluated from uniaxial tensile tests and those were utilized to the forming failure prediction using FE analysis. Based on the plastic deformation history obtained from FE analysis and Cockcroft and Latham’s ductile fracture criterion, the fracture initiation time and location were predicted and verified with the experimental results.


2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 2735-2741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Wang Duan ◽  
Jian Sheng Liu ◽  
Xiu Zhi Zhang ◽  
Xiao Dong Zhao

This paper dealt with the outstanding problems which were forging cracks existing in the process of forging.The forming reasons of forging cracks were analyzed. From the perspective of damage mechanics, the conventional mesoscopic models and fracture criteria of ductile metal material damage were introduced. The problems in recent research of forging cracks were pointed out. Some corresponding suggestions for the future research of forging carcks were put forward based on the existing problems. The existed ductile fracture criteria have only predicted the damage of specific process yet ,while the diversities of metal forming processes require ductile fracture criterion to have wide scope of application,so,for reason given above,the emphasis is placed on the necessity of establishing new ductile fracture criteria and fracture parameter library with the method of combination of theory and experiment and numerical simulation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1189-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
HS Liu ◽  
MW Fu

A modified ductile fracture criterion is proposed based on the traditional Ayada criterion and coded into the finite element simulation platform of VUMAT/ABAQUS for prediction and analysis of ductile fracture in metal plastic strain processes. In this modified ductile fracture criterion, stress triaxiality is taken into account, and more importantly, the exponential effect of the equivalent plastic strain on the damage behavior, which is generally ignored in other ductile fracture criteria, is also considered. The material related constants in the modified ductile fracture criterion are determined by tensile tests together with finite element simulations. The applicability and reliability of the ductile fracture criterion in ductile fracture prediction in two types of classic stress states, viz. shear stress, tensile stress in sheet metal forming, are investigated based on the deformation behavior and fracture occurrence in two case studies with two typical types of materials, i.e. Al 6061 and T10A. The materials have a wide range of plasticity. The simulation and experimental results verify the applicability and reliability of the developed ductile fracture criterion in prediction of the ductile fracture with and without necking in different stress states of plastic strain.


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