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Paulo A. F. Martins (Professor of Manufacturing, University of Lisbon) SHEET-BULK METAL FORMING: PROCESS DEVELOPMENT AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION

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Paulo A. F. Martins(Professor of Manufacturing, University of Lisbon)

SHEET-BULK METAL FORMING: PROCESS DEVELOPMENT AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION

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Sheet-Bulk Metal FormingDifferences in plastic flow resulting from the plane-stress conditions of sheet metal forming

and the three-dimensional stress conditions of bulk metal forming have long been utilized to

classify metal forming processes into two different groups.

Recent developments in metal forming technology lead to the development of a new group of

metal forming processes entitled ‘sheet-bulk metal forming’.

Merklein M, Allwood JM, Behrens BA, Brosius A, Hagenah H, Kuzman K, Mori K, Tekkaya AE, Weckenmann A (2012)

Bulk forming of sheet metal. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology 61: 725–745.

Mori K, Nakano T (2016) State-of-the-art of plate forging in Japan, Production Engineering Research and Development

10: 81–91.

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Sheet-Bulk Metal FormingSheet-bulk metal forming comprises the production of sheet metal parts with local functional

features such as teeth, ribs and solid bosses positioned outside the plane of the sheets from

which they are shaped by plastic deformation of sheets and plates with intended three-

dimensional plastic flow.

Winkelmann Automotive Schuler

Faurecia

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Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming

1 3 5

From a product development and manufacturing design point of view, typical applications of

SBMF require application of loading across (S) and/or perpendicular (T and/or L) directions to

the sheet thickness.

L

S

T

SBMF introduces new challenges for the development of new manufacturing processes and

new mechanical and fracture characterization processes.

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Incremental Sheet-Bulk Forming of GearsAim and objectives:

Development of an effective, economic alternative to fine-blanking for manufacturing

customized low batch production of gears by indentation perpendicular to the sheet thickness

that eliminates typical problems related to wear resistance of die materials under extreme

shearing loads.

P Sieczkarek, L Kwiatkowski, N Ben Khalifa, AE Tekkaya. Novel five axis forming

press for the incremental sheet-bulk metal forming. Key Engineering Materials,

2013.

P Sieczkarek, S Wernicke, PAF Martins and AE Tekkaya, Local forming of gears

by indentation of sheets, Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2016.

P Sieczkarek, S Wernicke, S Gies, PAF Martins and AE Tekkaya, Incipient and

repeatable plastic flow in incremental sheet-bulk forming of gears, International

Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, 2016.

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Incremental Sheet-Bulk Forming of GearsDeformation mechanics:

The analysis of the transient plastic flow associated to the incremental sheet-bulk forming of

gears was performed by means of an analytical model built upon the slip-line theory.

Effective strain rate obtained from finite element analysis with simufact.forming12

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Incremental Sheet-Bulk Forming of GearsDeformation mechanics:

)1(2,2 kp I

212,4

kp I

2

2cos12,4kp III

sin2 ,4,2,4 wlpplwpF iIIIII

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Incremental Sheet-Bulk Forming of GearsExtent of the plastic deformation region:

The analytical model based on slip-line analysis provides an estimate of the maximum

expansion x of the plastic deformation zone undergone by the sheet during indentation by

means of a gear tooth punch.

mmilx 5.4º20cos

3.31cos

The measurements were made in accordance to DIN EN ISO 6507-1:2005

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Incremental Sheet-Bulk Forming of GearsIncipient and repeatable plastic flow:

The underfilling of the punch cavity during the first indentation, which prevents the production

of sound disk gears, is explained on the basis of constrained material flow under material

strain hardening.

A solution based on the utilization of a tailored disk blank is proposed to overcome this defect.

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Incremental Sheet-Bulk Forming of GearsIncipient and repeatable plastic flow:

The experiments were performed in DC04 steel sheets with 3 mm thickness and numerical

simulations were performed in simufact.forming12.

340000 hexahedral elements6h CPUIntel Xeon CPU (3.4 GHz) with 12 physical cores

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Incremental Sheet-Bulk Forming of GearsMajor differences between incipient (first indentation) and repeatable (second indentation)

force-displacement evolutions are found in the second stage and are caused by free sideway

spread occurring in the second indentation. This does not happen during the first indentation

because the left and right punch wedges are constrained by adjacent non-deforming material.

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Incremental Sheet-Bulk Forming of GearsOvercome underfilling of the first gear tooth by means of tailored disk blanks:

tb=1.5mm, tt=1mm, h=1mm, Θ=20º

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Joining Sheets by Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming

Aim and objectives:

Development of a simple, flexible and low-cost solution based on a variant of the traditional

‘mortise-and-tenon’ joint to fix longitudinal in position two sheets perpendicular to one other.

Alternative joining technologies:

The new proposed joining technology is an alternative to existing joining solutions based on

welding, adhesive bonding, mechanical fastening or riveting, and mechanical folding.

IMF Bragança, CMA Silva, LM Alves and PAF Martins, Joining sheets perpendicular to one other by sheet-bulk metal forming, 2016 (in press)

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Joining Sheets by Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming

The new proposed ‘mortise-and-tenon’ joint is characterized by a rectangular cavity (‘mortise’)

cut-out in one sheet and by a tenon cut-out in the edge of the other sheet that passes entirely

through the mortise of the first sheet.

The tenon is longer than wider and is compressed perpendicular to the thickness direction in

order to plastically deform its free length and ensure a mechanical lock between the two

sheets to be joined.

The laboratory development was focused on a typical ‘unit cell’ of the new proposed ‘mortise-

and-tenon’ joint.

Unit CellTenon

Mortise

Locked

w

t

l0

0

f

BlanksPunch

DieSegment

Blank Holder

F

Die Shoe

Punch Holder

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Joining Sheets by Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming

The workability limits of the new proposed joining process are limited by two types of defects:

a) Failure by buckling of the slender tenons

A limiting length-to-thickness ratio was determined by experimentation and finite element

modelling 5.2max0 tl f

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Joining Sheets by Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming

b) Excessive force in the final locking stage

This is due to large volumes of the protrusion of the tenon beyond the mortise and causes

the upper sheets to bend.

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Joining Sheets by Sheet-Bulk Metal FormingForce-displacement (joining)

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

0 3 6 9 12 15 18

Forc

e (k

N)

Displacement (mm)

Exp. lf/w0 = 0.25

Exp. lf/w0 = 0.5

Exp. lf/w0 = 1

Exp. lf/w0 = 1.5

Exp. lf/w0 = 2

FEM 2D lf/w0 = 0.25

FEM 2D lf/w0 = 0.5

FEM 3D lf/w0 = 0.5

FEM 2D lf/w0 = 1

FEM 2D lf/w0 = 1.5

FEM 2D lf/w0 = 2

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Joining Sheets by Sheet-Bulk Metal FormingForce-displacement (detaching the sheets)

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4

Forc

e (k

N)

Displacement (mm)

Experimental lf/wo=1 Equation(4) lf/wo=1Experimental lf/wo=0.5 Equation(4) lf/wo=0.5Experimental lf/wo=0.25 Equation(4) lf/wo=0.25

cUTSACF c

n

AenKCF

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Joining Sheets by Sheet-Bulk Metal FormingApplications:

The new proposed ‘mortise-and-tenon’ joint allows connecting two metal sheets (or plates)

perpendicular to one other by SBMF, at room temperature, and is a simple, flexible and low-

cost alternative to existing joining solutions based on welding, adhesive bonding and

fastening.

There is a wide range of industrial applications: from structural applications and crash boxes

of vehicles to metallic floors/platforms for passenger trains and boats, among others.

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsMotivation:

Mechanical characterization of materials for sheet-bulk metal forming presents two main

challenges derived from the application of three-dimensional stress conditions in metal sheets:

a) Determination of stress-strain curves for high values of strain (far beyond those obtained

by conventional tensile tests);

b) Characterization of fracture toughness in new loading conditions perpendicular to sheet

thickness.

CMA Silva, MB Silva, LM Alves, PAF Martins, A new test for determining the mechanical and fracture behaviour of materials in sheet-bulk metal

forming, Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 2016

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsAim and objectives:

To develop an experimental methodology for determining the stress-strain curve, fracture

toughness and the critical instability strength of sheets and plates by means of double-

notched test specimens loaded in shear.

d

Punch Pressure pad

Tool

Specimen

Punch

DiePressure pad

Specimen

l

F

t

h

W

P Sieczkarek, CMA Silva, S Wernicke, AE Tekkaya, PAF Martins, Mechanical characterization of materials for sheet-bulk metal forming

processes, RTME 2016.

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Displacement

2l1

2l 2

2ln

_ -1/2

1/2_

_ _

_

F

l

(a) (b)

Forc

e F

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsStress-strain curve:

The determination is based in two major assumptions.

• Firstly, plastic work is considered to be totally consumed by shear deformation inside the

two rectangular patches of the test. The remaining parts of the specimens are assumed to

be rigid because the contribution of elastic deformation is negligible.

• Secondly, the shear stresses and strains are considered to be uniformly distributed inside

the two shear deformation regions

d tan

ltF2

33

d

Punch

Die

Specimen

l

F

t

h

W

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsAluminium EN-AW-1050:

The poor agreement of the results obtained in the tests that were performed with the largest

ligaments l=10mm is attributed to plastic work being also consumed outside the two

rectangular patches of the test specimens. This causes the stress-state to deviate from pure

plastic shearing conditions.

Double-notched shear test specimen l d a b h w 2

2.5 27.5 33.75 50 100 4 6 8 10

35.0

F

l

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsFracture toughness:

The determination of fracture toughness involves characterization of the evolution of load with

displacement for a number of test cases performed with specimens having different ligaments

between the two symmetric opposite notches.

RdAdVwFdW ppT 22

tlRtlddWT 220

2lld

RldwT

0

Rlw avmeanT 221

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsAluminium EN-AW-1050 and Steel DC04:

The results obtained for the smaller ligaments 2l = 4 mm

were not utilized in the determination of fracture

toughness R of DC04 due to the previously mentioned

rotational effects of the inner part of the specimens that

cause the stress-state to deviate from pure plastic

shearing conditions

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsAlternative test specimens to determine fracture toughness:

• Left – Double-notched tensile test specimen leading to crack opening by tension (mode I)

• Right – Double-notched shear test specimen leading to crack opening by in-plane shear

(mode II), but very much influenced by rotation of the plastic shear area during crack

propagation.

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsCritical instability strength:

The critical instability strength to trigger buckling in a sheet is obtained from Timoshenko [9]

and is similar to the Euler strength for columns except for the fact that it is a function of the

thickness to width ratio t/w because the shorter the width w the larger the resistance to

buckling will be.

2

2 )1(

wtEKcr

ddEt

htt 5.00 exp

hww 5.00 exp

0ln hhh

Forc

e F

F

Displacement

w

h

h1

h2

hn

Stre

ss

Strain

Instability strength

Stress-strain curve

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsCritical instability strength:

The specimens with smaller heights (e.g. h = 10 mm) show a steep increase of the force-

displacement evolution without occurrence of plastic instability and subsequent formation of

out of plane buckling. In contrast, the remaining test specimens show an initial steep increase

of the force with displacement up to the onset of plastic instability followed by a bifurcation

into a secondary loading path during which the force increases at a lower rate.

Aluminium EN-AW-1050

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Mechanical Characterization of MaterialsCritical instability strength:

The critical instability strengths are valid for a thickness-to-width t/w = 0.3 but the occurrence

of plastic instability in the form of buckling out of the sheet plane depends on the slenderness

ratio h/w of the specimens.

In the tests performed it was observed that safe deformation modes without buckling require

Aluminium EN-AW-1050 Steel DC04

1wh

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Failure by Fracture in Sheet-Bulk FormingMotivation:

In a recent paper, Martins et al. characterized the circumstances under which the different

crack opening modes of fracture mechanics will occur in metal forming (under plane stress

conditions) and concluded that failure in sheet metal forming is triggered either (i) by tension

or (ii) by in-plane shear (respectively, modes I and II of fracture mechanics) and that failure in

bulk metal forming is triggered (i) by tension or (iii) by out-of-plane shear (respectively, modes

I and III of fracture mechanics)

P.A.F. Martins, N. Bay, A.E. Tekkaya and A.G. Atkins, Characterization of fracture loci in metal forming, International Journal of Mechanical

Sciences, 83, 112-123, 2014.

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Failure by Fracture in Sheet-Bulk FormingAim and objectives:

To understand if the formability and the physics of cracking in SBMF are the same of those of

sheet metal forming (failure only by tension or in-plane shear) or instead whether fracture by

out-of-plane shearing (mode III of fracture mechanics) which is the main separation mode in

bulk metal forming can also occur.

The investigation was based on experimental and numerical modelling of the local thickening

of aluminium AA1050-H111 sheets by incremental ploughing with a roll tipped tool.

Isik K., Wernicke S., Silva M.B., Martins P.A.F. and Tekkaya A.E., Failure by fracture in sheet–bulk metal forming, Journal of Strain Analysis, 51, 387-394, 2015.

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Failure by Fracture in Sheet-Bulk FormingExperimentation:

Experimentation was performed in aluminum AA1050-H111 sheets with 1 mm thickness.

The tool was made from a powder metallurgy high-speed steel ASP2023 (WN 1.3344) with a

radius R=10mm and a width w=10mm and was vacuum hardened in order to ensure a surface

hardness of approximately 60 HRc.

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Failure by Fracture in Sheet-Bulk Forming

Numerical modelling:

The incremental ploughing of a thin sheet with a roll tipped tool was simulated with the

commercial finite element computer program Simufact.forming12. The sheets were modelled

as elastic-plastic deformable objects and their geometry was discretized by means of

approximately 95500 hexahedral elements.

i=0.15 mm

i=0.25 mm

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Failure by Fracture in Sheet-Bulk Forming

Crack opening mode:

The results demonstrate that failure in sheet-

bulk metal forming processes may be caused

by out-of-plane shearing (crack opening mode

III of fracture mechanics) and allow concluding

that sheet-bulk metal forming processes have

the unique ability of being able to fail by

cracking along all the three crack opening

modes of fracture mechanics.

This justifies its classification into a separate

standalone metal forming category placed in

between sheet and bulk metal forming.

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Conclusions

The first part of the presentation introduced new developments in sheet-bulk metal forming

with special emphasis on incremental forming of gears and joining of sheets by forming.

Motivation and potential applications of the new proposed processes were addressed along

side with major topics in deformation mechanics and experimentation.

The second part of the presentation introduces a methodology to determine the stress-strain

curve, the fracture toughness and the critical instability strength of materials supplied in the

form of sheets to be used in sheet-bulk metal forming processes.

The methodology is based on the utilization of double-notched test specimens loaded in shear

and rectangular test specimens loaded in compression.

Results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology, namely the capability of

the double-notched test specimens to determine the stress-strain curve up to higher strain

levels than those commonly attained in tensile tests.

The third part of the presentation discusses fracture in sheet-bulk metal forming and

demonstrates that failure can also occur by out-of-plane shearing (crack opening mode III of

fracture mechanics), which is known to be typical of bulk metal forming processes.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like acknowledge Fundacão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia de Portugal and

IDMEC under LAETA - UID/EMS/50022/2013 and PDTC/EMS-TEC/0626/2014.