A novel forming technology for tailor-welded blacks

被引：101

作者：

Kinsey, B ^{[1
]}

Liu, ZH ^{[1
]}

Cao, J ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Northwestern Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY | 2000年 / 99卷 / 1-3期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

tailor-welded banks; sheet metal forming; process design; tooting design;

D O I：

10.1016/S0924-0136(99)00412-4

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

A promising approach to reduce manufacturing costs, decrease vehicle weight, and improve the quality of automotive body components is through the use of tailor-welded blanks. This term refers to blanks where multiple sheets of material are welded together to create a single blank prior to the forming process. The welding process creates formability concerns in a traditional forming process due to material property changes in the weld and in the heat-affected zone adjacent to the weld. In this paper, a newly contrived clamping method along the weld line of the tailor-welded blank during forming is proposed. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed technology, which reduced the maximum strains along the weld line by approximately one-fifth in the part examined. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

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页码：145 / 153

页数：9