Experimental Setup To Characterize Flow-Induced Anisotropy Of Sheet Metals

For many metals, a transient variation of the yield stress can be observed when changing the orientation of a load-path Such behavior affects the manufacturing process itself, e.g. by increasing forming forces, altered material properties or springback of the manufactured components. Hence, the aim of this work is to develop a novel experimental setup to characterize hardening effects due to flow-induced anisotropy for sheet metals. The proposed experiment consists of two subsequent forming operations. Initially, a hydraulic bulge test is conducted, followed by torsion of the hemispherical preformed sheet. Such approach captures the effects of flow-induced anisotropy like cross hardening as could be proved for the example of the conventional deep-drawing steel DC04. The benefits of the presented setup are (i) high plastic strains in the pre-loading step and (ii) determination of several combinations of pre- and subsequent loading.