Advanced High Strength Steels for Automobile Body Structures

2007 ◽  
Vol 539-543 ◽  
pp. 4386-4390 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Takahashi ◽  
A. Uenishi ◽  
H. Yoshida ◽  
H. Kuriyama
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate Sensitivity ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Thin Wall ◽  
Advanced High Strength Steels ◽  
Limited Length ◽  
Side Collision ◽  
Frontal Collisions

There has been a big demand for increased vehicle safety and weight reduction of auto-bodies. An extensive use of high strength steels is one of the ways to answer the requirement. Since the crashworthiness is improved by applications of higher strength steels to crashworthiness conscious structural components, various types of advanced high strength steels have been developed. The crash energy during frontal collisions is absorbed by the buckling and bending deformations of thin wall tube structures of the crushable zone of auto-bodies. In the case of side collision, on the other hand, a limited length of crushable zone requires the components to minimize the deformation during the collision. The lower the strength during press forming, the better the press formability is expected. However, the higher the strength at a collision event, the better the crashworthiness can be obtained. It can, therefore, be concluded that steels with higher strain rate sensitivities are desired. Combinations of soft ferrite phase and other hard phases were found to improve the strain rate sensitivity of flow stresses. Bake hardening is also one of the ways to improve the strain rate sensitivity of flow stresses.

The Effect of Strain Rate on Yielding in High Strength Steels

1966 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Kendall ◽  
T. E. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Power Law ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Alloy Steels ◽  
Strength Alloy ◽  
Continuous Power

The effect of strain rates ranging from 10−4 to 10 in/in/sec on the yield strengths of several high strength alloy steels is investigated. Quenched and tempered-type alloys exhibit two regions of strain-rate sensitivity with the strain rate dividing the sensitive and insensitive regions varying from 0.5 to greater than 10 in/in/sec, depending on composition, microstructure and grain size. At the higher rates a power-law relationship is found which is consistent with a yielding model involving breakaway of dislocations from solute atmospheres. Maraging steel exhibits a continuous power law-strain rate sensitivity over the entire range.

scholarly journals Advanced Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Multi-Phase Steels: Work-Hardening, Strain Rate Sensitivity and Formability

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6122
Author(s):  
Jesús Galán-López ◽  
Behnam Shakerifard ◽  
Jhon Ochoa-Avendaño ◽  
Leo A. I. Kestens
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Crystal Plasticity ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
Grain Morphology ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Constitutive Law ◽  
Forming Limit ◽  
Biaxial Tests

This work presents an advanced crystal plasticity model for the simulation of the mechanical behavior of multiphase advanced high-strength steels. The model is based on the Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) model and uses information about the material’s crystallographic texture and grain morphology together with a grain constitutive law. The law used here, based on the work of Pantleon, considers how dislocations are created and annihilated, as well as how they interact with obstacles such as grain boundaries and inclusions (carbides). Additionally, strain rate sensitivity is implemented using a phenomenological expression derived from literature data that does not require any fitting parameter. The model is applied to the study of two bainitic steels obtained by applying different heat treatments. After fitting the required parameters using tensile experiments in different directions at quasi-static and high strain rates, formability properties are determined using the model for the performance of virtual experiments: uniaxial tests are used to determine r-values and stress levels and biaxial tests are used for the calculation of yield surfaces and forming limit curves.

Influence of the contact with friction on the deformation behavior of advanced high strength steels in the Nakajima test

2021 ◽  
pp. 030932472110212
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mehdi Kasaei ◽  
Marta C Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Friction Coefficient ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Contact Pressure ◽  
Deformation Behaviour ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Advanced High Strength Steels ◽  
Deformation Mechanics ◽  
Nakajima Test

This work presents a new understanding on the deformation mechanics involved in the Nakajima test, which is commonly used to determine the forming limit curve of sheet metals, and is focused on the interaction between the friction conditions and the deformation behaviour of a dual phase steel. The methodology is based on the finite element analysis of the Nakajima test, considering different values of the classic Coulomb friction coefficient, including a pressure-dependent model. The validity of the finite element model is examined through a comparison with experimental data. The results show that friction affects the location and strain path of the necking point by changing the strain rate distribution in the specimen. The strain localization alters the contact status from slip to stick at a portion of the contact area from the pole to the necking zone. This leads to the sharp increase of the strain rate at the necking point, as the punch rises further. The influence of the pressure-dependent friction coefficient on the deformation behaviour is very small, due to the uniform distribution of the contact pressure in the Nakajima test. Moreover, the low contact pressure range attained cannot properly replicate real contact condition in sheet metal forming processes of advanced high strength steels.

scholarly journals The strain-rate sensitivity of high-strength high-toughness steels.

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
M F Dilmore ◽  
Thomas B Crenshaw ◽  
Brad Lee Boyce
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
High Strength ◽  
High Toughness

scholarly journals The effect of Nb on the high strain rate hydrogen embrittlement of Q&P steel

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
Florian Vercruysse ◽  
Lisa Claeys ◽  
Tom Depover ◽  
Kim Verbeken ◽  
Patricia Verleysen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Hydrogen Uptake ◽  
High Hydrogen ◽  
Damage Initiation ◽  
Advanced High Strength Steels ◽  
Dynamic Tensile Loading ◽  
Carbon Martensite

Quenching and Partitioning (Q&P) steels are, due to their excellent combination of strength and ductility, seen as good candidates for the third generation advanced high strength steels (AHSS). Although the TRIP effect is beneficial for the overall mechanical behaviour of these steels it potentially can have detrimental effects when strained in a hydrogenenriched environment. The solubility of hydrogen is high in austenite but low in high carbon martensite. Martensite is even in the absence of hydrogen already a possible damage initiation spot. The effect of hydrogen under static and dynamic tensile loading was evaluated in a Q&P and a Nb micro-alloyed Q&P steel. Experiments were carried out under a strain rate ranging from 0.03 s-1 till 500 s-1 and correlated with the hydrogen uptake characterised via thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS). The presence of Nb resulted in a 25% increase in the hydrogen uptake capacity. A higher susceptibility to hydrogen was observed in the Nb steel partially due to the high hydrogen fraction, but also because of the larger fraction of low stability austenite. However, when tested under dynamic conditions the hydrogen susceptibility is minor and even improved in the micro-alloyed Q&P steel compared to the standard Q&P steel.

scholarly journals High Rate Characterization of Three DP980 Steels

2018 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 02060
Author(s):  
Amir Zhumagulov ◽  
Armin Abedini ◽  
Taamjeed Rahmaann ◽  
José Imbert ◽  
Clifford Butcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Uniform Elongation ◽  
Sheet Thickness ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
High Strength ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Experimental Program ◽  
Static Tests ◽  
Advanced High Strength Steels ◽  
Energy Absorbing

Advanced high strength steels (AHSS) are used extensively in the automotive industry in the ongoing effort to reduce vehicle weight. Their increased strength allows for the reduction of sheet thickness, and thus a reduction in mass, while offering formability and cost advantages when compared to other metal alloys typically considered for lightweight applications. DP980 steels are AHSS being considered for structural energy absorbing components; however, there is a lack of published information on their high rate behaviour. This paper presents the results of an experimental program that characterized three production DP980 steels from three different manufacturers at strain rates of 0.001, 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 s-1. An electro-mechanical frame was used for the quasi-static tests, the 1, 10, and 100 s-1 tests were carried out using a fast hydraulic apparatus and the 1,000 s-1 experiments were carried out using a tensile split Hopkinson bar. The quasi-static hardening response at strains higher than the uniform elongation of about 7% was obtained by using a shear test, thus avoiding the use of inverse modelling techniques. The results indicate that the DP980 steels are moderately rate sensitive, with one of the materials showing higher sensitivity than the others. One of the materials exhibited a yield point phenomenon that appears to affect the behaviour of the material at 100 and 1,000 s-1, however, the reasons for this behaviour remain an open question. The data was fit to modified Johnson-Cook and Cowper-Symonds model to account for rate sensitivity. The results presented in this paper provide a tool for modelling the dynamic behaviour of DP980 steels.

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