Electromagnetic forming(EMF)is a high-velocity manufacturing technique which uses electromagnetic(Lorentz)body forces to shape sheet metal parts.One of the several advantages of EMF is the considerable ductility increase observed in several metals,with aluminum featuring prominently among them.Electromagnetically assisted sheet metal stamping(EMAS)is an innovative hybrid sheet metal processing technique that combines EMF into traditional stamping.To evaluate the efficiency of this technique,an experimental scheme of EMAS was established according to the conventional stamping of cylindrical parts from aluminum and the formability encountered was discussed.Furthermore,a "multi-step,loose coupling" numerical scheme was proposed to investigate the deformation behaviors based on the ANSYS Multiphysics/LS-DYNA platform through establishing user-defined subroutines.The results show that electromagnetically assisted deep drawing can remarkably improve the formability of aluminum cylindrical parts.The proposed numerical scheme can successfully simulate the related Stamping-EMF process,and the deformation characteristics of sheet metal reflect experimental results.The predicted results are also validated with the profiles of the deformed sheets in experiments.
An experimental study on the quasi-static-dynamic formability specified in electromagnetically assisted sheet metal stamping(EMAS)was presented.A series of uniaxial and plane-strain tensile experiments were carried out on AA5052-O sheet by using a combined quasi-static stretching and pulsed electromagnetic forming(EMF)method.Failure strains representing formability beyond conventional quasi-static forming limits are observed under both uniaxial tensile and plane-strain states.The total forming limits of the as-received aluminum alloy undergoing both low and high quasi-static pre-straining are almost similar in quasi-static-dynamic deformation.Ultimate total formability seems to depend largely on the high-velocity loading conditions.Thus, it appears that for quasi-static-dynamic deformation,the quasi-static pre-straining of material is not of primary importance to the additionally useful formability.These observations will enable to develop forming operations that take advantage of this improvement in formability,and will also enable the use of a quasi-static preform fairly close to the quasi-static forming limits without weakening its total formability for design of an EMAS process in shaping large aluminum shell parts like auto body panels.
Electromagnetic forming is one of the high-rate forming methods that can be extensively used to form and join axisymmetric metal sheet and tube. Tendency of homogeneous radial deformation during electromagnetic compression of aluminium tube was investigated through the design optimization method based on sequential coupling numerical simulation and experiments. The results show that the tendency depends on the length ratio of tube to coil (R), which has a critical value (Rc) corresponding to the relatively homogeneous radial deformation along axial direction. The tube length relative to Rc is insensitive to the discharge voltage. When R is greater than Rc, the deformed tube presents horn shape and the shorter coil makes for local deformation. If R is less than Rc, the deformed tube presents drum shape and the longer coil contributes to larger deformation at tube end. Rc increases with coli length and could approach to 1; inversely, it could approach to 0. These results indicate the design optimization method based on the sequential coupling numerical simulation is feasible, which can be used to realize the controllable and precise deformation of metal tube.
