Abstract

The main purpose of the present work is to measure the stress–strain behavior under warm conditions (about 100 °C) of advanced high strength steel (AHSS) sheets up to large strains compared to uniaxial tension. The test equipment consists of two main parts, i.e., a hydraulic bulge tester and a heating device. A mechanical system is attached to the test equipment for measuring the membrane stress and thickness strain at the bulge pole. The stress–strain curves were measured for three kinds of AHSS sheets with the proposed test method for various initial temperatures (10, 50 and 100 °C). The proposed method does not provide isothermal stress–strain curves because the specimen temperature increases during the test due to the effect of deformation-induced heating. A numerical scheme using thermo-mechanical finite element (FE) simulations is suggested to deconvolute the isothermal stress–strain curves.

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