Abstract
This study proposes a method for determining the material constitutive equations and optimal forming conditions on the basis of free bulging tests. The blow-forming tests were carried out at the temperature of 420°C using aluminum alloy (AMg-6) sheets of a 1mm thickness. Each test was performed at constant pressure. For each fixed value of the pressure, a series of experiments was carried out with different forming times to obtain evolutions of dome height H and thickness s. These data were processed by the proposed method to obtain the flow stress dependence on the effective strain rate. The constitutive equations were obtained by least squares minimization of deviations between the experimental variations of H and s and ones predicted by a simplified engineering model. On the basis of the obtained data, the optimum strain rate for AMg-6 processing was determined as one corresponding to the maximum strain rate sensitivity.
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