Journal
MATERIALS LETTERS
Volume 180, Issue -, Pages 322-326Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2016.05.145
Keywords
Hole expansion ratio; Advanced high strength steels; Tensile properties; Metal forming and shaping; Metals and alloys; Deformation and fracture
Funding
- POSCO [2015Y018]
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Stretch-flangeability representing the capability of a sheet material to form into a complex shaped part is not a well-known sheet metal forming property. We correlate mechanical properties with stretch-flangeability of various advanced high strength steels (AHSSs) to capture the stretch-flanging phenomenon and improve the stretch-flangeability of steel sheet materials. The stretch-flangeability of materials is usually evaluated using a hole expansion test. During the hole expansion test, the stress state in the hole edge part of the specimen is almost the same as that of the uniaxial tensile test. However, a single parameter in tensile properties of the AHSSs exhibits no clear correlation with flangeability estimated as the hole expansion ratio (HER). Because micro-cracks in the hole edge region of the hole expansion testing samples play a significant role in HER values, we propose and demonstrate that fracture toughness is the key factor governing the HER of AHSSs. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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