Study on formability in hydroforming steel sheets tailored welded blanks / Estudo da conformabilidade na hidroconformação de recortes de chapas de aço soldados a laser

AUTOR(ES)

Renato Caldin

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The increasing number of vehic1es and a more rigorous environmental legislation, are forcing automobile industries and research centers to develop new materials and manufacturing processes to the production of parts with higher mechanical properties, better formability and sheet thickness reduction, without comprirnising the rigidity and structural stability of the auto bodies. The main objective is to minimize the production costs, to increase the safety and to reduce vehic1e weight, reducing pollutants emissions, resulting in a best relation weight x power and providing better conditions of comfort and driveability. Based in these characteristics, the objective of this work was to study the simultaneous use of two not conventional manufacturing processes: hydroforming of Tailored Welded Blank (TWB). Therefore it was compared the formability of TWB in conventional stamping and hydroforrning, from the Forming Limit Diagram (FLD), plotted from the modified Nakazima test, to determine the forming limit of the raw material, and the Maximum Front of Deformation (MFD) to determine the maximum deformation in the products. A hybrid tool was designed and assembled to manufacture parts by conventional stamping and hydroforming steel plates ST -06 and ST-07 com thickness 1,5 and 0,9mm respectively, welded by laser to form the TWBs. With the comparative analysis between FLD of the raw material and MFD of the products conventionally stamped and hydroformed, it was possible to identify that hydroforming overcomes the conventional stamping in respect to the formability of Tailored Welded Blanks, and therefore it was possible to form products with higher and regular domes, with lower reduction of thickness, and without any failures

ASSUNTO(S)

tailored welded blank formability chapas de aço - processo a frio estampagem (trabalhos em metal) conformação de metais deep drawing juntas soldadas hydroforming trabalhos em chapa de metal (fabricação)

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