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Investigations of ductile damage during the process chains of toothed functional components manufactured by sheet-bulk metal forming

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Sheet-bulk metal forming processes combine conventional sheet forming processes with bulk forming of sheet semi-finished parts. In these processes the sheets undergo complex forming histories. Due to in- and out-of-plane material flow and large accumulated plastic strains, the conventional failure prediction methods for sheet metal forming such as forming limit curve fall short. As a remedy, damage models can be applied to model damage evolution during those processes. In this study, damage evolution during the production of two different toothed components from DC04 steel is investigated. In both setups, a deep drawn cup is upset to form a circumferential gearing. However, the two final products have different dimensions and forming histories. Due to combined deep drawing and upsetting processes, the material flow on the cup walls is three-dimensional and non-proportional. In this study, the numerical and experimental investigations for those parts are presented and compared. Damage evolution in the process chains is simulated with a Lemaitre damage criterion. Microstructural analysis by scanning electron microscopy is performed in the regions with high mechanical loading. It is observed that the evolution of voids in terms of void volume fraction is strongly dependent on the deformation path. The comparison of simulation results with microstructural data shows that the void volume fraction decreases in the upsetting stage after an initial increase in the drawing stage. Moreover, the concurrent numerical and microstructural analysis provides evidence that the void volume fraction decreases during compression in sheet-bulk metal forming.

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the scope of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre on sheet-bulk metal forming (SFB/TR 73) in the subprojects A1 “Process combination for manufacturing of teethed, thin-walled functional components out of tailored blanks”, A7 “Improvement of combined cutting and deep drawing processes by means of overlaying dynamic process forces”, C4 “Analysis of load history dependent evolution of damage and microstructure for the numerical design of sheet-bulk metal forming processes”.

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  1. Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction, Technical University of Dortmund, Baroper Str. 303, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Kerim Isik, Till Clausmeyer & A. Erman Tekkaya

  2. Institut für Werkstoffkunde (Materials Science), Leibniz Universität Hannover, An der Universität 2, 30823, Garbsen, Germany

    Gregory Gerstein & Florian Nürnberger

  3. Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstraße 13, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Thomas Schneider, Robert Schulte & Marion Merklein

  4. Institute of Forming Technology and Machines (IFUM), Leibniz Universität Hannover, An der Universität 2, 30823, Garbsen, Germany

    Daniel Rosenbusch, Milan Vucetic, Sergej Koch, Sven Hübner & Bernd-Arno Behrens

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Isik, K., Gerstein, G., Schneider, T. et al. Investigations of ductile damage during the process chains of toothed functional components manufactured by sheet-bulk metal forming. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 10, 5–15 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-016-0656-9

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