Spinning Process of D406A Ultra-High Strength Steel

2021 ◽  
Vol 1035 ◽  
pp. 410-417
Author(s):  
De Gui Liu ◽  
Fu Long Chen ◽  
Hai Bao Wu ◽  
Ji Zhen Li ◽  
Jian Fei Wang

D406A steel is a medium-carbon low-alloy steel, which has excellent comprehensive mechanical properties. It is widely used in the production of missiles and rocket barrels. In this paper, the spinning forming limit test and the intermediate heat treatment process of ultra-high-strength steel were used to explore the effect of spinning process and heat treatment on the properties of spinning parts. The research results showed that the reduction amount of the material made the material thinning rate approach the limit thinning rate. The final blank wall thickness was reduced from 15 mm to 3.0 mm when the cracking occurred. It was calculated that the material's power spinning limit thinning rate was 80%. The ferrite matrix after spinning showed a streamline distribution characteristic perpendicular to the thinning direction, and the precipitated carbides were uniformly distributed on the surface of the matrix, which had the characteristics of deformation and extension along the streamline. After the heat treatment, the structure of the spinning parts changed continuously. When the structure was quenched and tempered, the martensitic structure can be obtained, and the tempered martensitic structure was smaller. Furthermore a test piece for ultra-high-strength steel spinning technology has been developed, and the solutions discussed for flanging defects in the actual spinning process, and test data for the actual production of ultra-high-strength steel spinning parts accumulated.

2014 ◽  
Vol 1004-1005 ◽  
pp. 1265-1269
Author(s):  
Bi Yan ◽  
Ma Xu ◽  
Meng Chen ◽  
Yang Guang

Thermoforming is a typical method of ultra high strength steel plate’s forming for the automotive industry, where the 22MnB5 sheet is widely used. This article discusses how to simulate the thermoforming process of the 22MnB5 by using the thermal coupling software which is called Pam-stamp 2011. After that, we got the distribution of temperature、thickness and thinning rate of thermoforming parts.


2010 ◽  
Vol 160-162 ◽  
pp. 836-841
Author(s):  
Yun Kai Gao ◽  
Da Wei Gao ◽  
You Zhi Deng ◽  
Wei Cao

Ultra high strength steel plays an important role of light weighting in automotive industry. The hot forming simulation of car door bar is processed with 22MnB5 ultra high strength boron steel. FEM is built with the 12 nodes shell elements and MAT 106 is selected in LS-DYNA. The hot forming processes include two heat transfers. One is the process from the oven to the tools after the blank is heated. The other is the process after the blank contacts the tools. The hot forming simulation results are obtained by LS-DYNA. The results show that the thickness distribution, the forming limit and the maximum effective plastic strain and other performances attain to standards. It is proved that the hot forming simulation method is correct.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1033
Author(s):  
Xiao Ouyang ◽  
Zhiqiang Zhang ◽  
Hongjie Jia ◽  
Mingwen Ren ◽  
Yaping Sun

Insufficient strength of welding spots is a common problem in the hot stamping process of ultra-high strength steel patchwork blanks (UHSSP). In this paper, the welding spots of 22MnB5 boron steel with thicknesses of 1.2 and 1.5 mm were austenitized and then air-cooled to 650–850 °C for high temperature tensile shear tests and high temperature cross-tension tests, respectively. To study the mechanical properties of the welding spots at room temperature after heat treatment, the austenitized welding spots were quenched in cold water to room temperature, and microhardness tests and microstructure observations were performed. The results indicated that compared to the original welding spots, the heat-affected softening zone disappeared after heat treatment, and the hardness values of the fusion zone, heat-affected zone and base material were basically the same, at about 500 HV. After heat treatment, the welding spots were mainly martensite. With the increase in deformation temperature, the peak loads of the tensile shear and the cross tension of the welding spots decreased. At 750 °C, the peak loads of the welding spots decreased less, energy absorption was larger, and the welding spots had the comprehensive mechanical properties of strength and ductility.


2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 245-248
Author(s):  
Zhuang Li ◽  
Di Wu ◽  
Huan Huan Yu ◽  
Lei Luo ◽  
Ming Liu

Intercritically treated ultra high strength steel was investigated using a continuous annealing simulator of the laboratory. The results have shown that the microstructure consists of a ferrite matrix with martensite. A satisfactory mechanical property was obtained by intercritical annealing and subsequent overaging. The specimen exhibited optimum Rm (1360MPa) and At (20%), a relatively low Rp0.2/Rm (0.72) and an ideal product of Rm and At (27200MPa%). Satisfactory mechanical properties of the present steel are attributed to the fact that the effect of dispersion strengthening of martensite islands as well as the contribution to strength by the softer phase, such as ferrite (retained austenite).


2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Bo-Hee Yoon ◽  
Kyoung-Tae Park ◽  
Tae-Hyuk Lee ◽  
Jae-Hoon Kim ◽  
Hong-Kyu Kim ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 1018 ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Aeksuwat Nakwattanaset ◽  
Surasak Suranuntchai

Finite Element Method (FEM) is one of the most popular methods in the automotive industry to reduce problems, time and wastes in production processes. This method can predict the metal forming processes with computer modeling before making forming tools. In sheet metal forming analysis, Forming Limit Diagram (FLD) is one of the most important indicators in FEM, it can tell each forming regions such as cracks, wrinkles and safe zone. However, the FLD that has automatically created in finite element program isn’t enough accurate. Then, the main objective of this research work was to generate FLD of the ultra-high strength steel: NSC980D that usually has been used in auto body frame by using Nakajima's tests. Then, the generated FLD was used to simulate the forming of the automotive parts for solving the cracks caused during the forming along with the Hill’s 1948 material model. The Keeler’s FLD, which is generated automatically by the commercial software applied, was plotted for comparison during simulation, as well. Drawing process of the panel front was investigated by applying FEM simulating tool: PAMSTAMP to analyze the formability and to determine the optimal forming parameters under suitable service conditions. The main parameters of interest were the part and blank configuration. A number of corrections were successively made to successfully form the part. From the analysis of 2 case studies, it was found that tearing was occurred in the first case results. When the forming force was reduced from 15 tons to 9 tons in the second case, the complete forming without tearing and similar like actual forming at the same conditions had been taken place in the second results.


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