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Improvement of the drawability based on the surface friction stir process of AA5052-H32 automotive sheets

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Based on the imperative social demand for lighter vehicles, lightweight materials such as aluminum alloys are expected to replace conventional steels in many automotive applications. In automotive parts manufacturing, most of the components produced in conventional stamping operations are geometrically complex as the blanks are subjected to both stretching and drawing deformations. However, aluminum alloys have intrinsic drawbacks, such as the inferior formability of these materials, although the effects of the weight reduction in terms of performance are highly promising. In an effort to improve the formability of aluminum alloy sheets, the surface friction stir process is proposed in this study. This process locally modifies the surface of automotive aluminum alloy sheets via stirring and advancing on the surface of the sheet, similar to the Friction Stir Welding (FSW) process that utilizes a probe without a pin. When the surface of the sheet is modified locally by stirring, dynamic recrystallization due to the severe shear deformation along with heat resulting from the friction occur due to changes in the micro-structure and mechanical properties in the stirred zone, while the dislocation density and grain size refinement are curtailed. In this work, the drawability performance of AA5052-H32 sheets (thickness 1.5 mm) that were welded using the surface friction stir process was experimentally and numerically investigated in cylindrical cup drawing tests. When applied to AA5052-H32 automotive sheets, the surface friction stir process improved the drawability of the entire aluminum alloy sheet. For numerical simulations, the non-quadratic anisotropic yield function Yld2000-2d was employed along with isotropic hardening, while the formability was evaluated by utilizing theoretical forming limit diagrams (FLD) based on Hill's bifurcation and M-K theories.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, 56-1, Shillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, 151-742, Seoul, Korea

    Sangjoon Park, Heung Nam Han & Kwansoo Chung

  2. Department of Advanced Metallic Materials, Korea Institute of Materials Science, 66, Sangnam-dong, Changwon-si, 641-010, Gyeongnam, Korea

    Chang Gil Lee & Sung-Joon Kim

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Park, S., Lee, C.G., Han, H.N. et al. Improvement of the drawability based on the surface friction stir process of AA5052-H32 automotive sheets. Met. Mater. Int. 14, 47–57 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3365/met.mat.2008.02.047

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