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Designing a Uniaxial Tension/Compression Test for Springback Analysis in High-Strength Steel Sheets

Experimental Mechanics volume 57, pages 155–163 (2017)Cite this article

Abstract

We describe an innovative design for an in-plane measurement technique that subjects thin sheet metal specimens to bidirectional loading. The goal of this measurement is to provide the critical performance data necessary to validate complex predictions of the work hardening behavior during reversed uniaxial deformation. In this approach, all of the principal forces applied to the specimen are continually measured in real-time throughout the test. This includes the lateral forces that are required to prevent out of plane displacements in the specimen that promote buckling. This additional information will, in turn, improve the accuracy of the compensation for the friction generated between the anti-bucking guides and the specimen during compression. The results from an initial series of experiments not only demonstrate that our approach is feasible, but that it generates data with the accuracy necessary to quantify the directionally-dependent changes in the yield behavior that occur when the strain path is reversed (i.e., the Bauschinger Effect).

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All of the work described herein was performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and was supported by internal funding from the Materials Science and Engineering Division. We would like to acknowledge D. J. Pitchure, of the NIST Mechanical Performance Group, for his helpful suggestions and assistance with the CAD modeling, and C. Amigo, D. Barry, B. Pries, and J. Kisner, of the NIST Fabrication Technology Group, for their collective expertise and advise offered during the fabrication of the numerous precision components in our apparatus.

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Stoudt, M., Levine, L.E. & Ma, L. Designing a Uniaxial Tension/Compression Test for Springback Analysis in High-Strength Steel Sheets. Exp Mech 57, 155–163 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-016-0202-x

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Keywords

  • Bauschinger effect
  • Yield phenomena
  • Residual stresses
  • Ferritic steels
  • Springback