Abstract
The stretch flangeability of tailor-welded blank depends on the angle between weld line and the tangential line of blank edge, which is generally the tensile direction in stretch flanging. This effect was studied by uniaxial tensile testing of tailor-welded high-strength-steel specimens with a weld line at 45, 60, or 90 degrees from the tensile direction. The 60-degree-weld-line specimen provides the highest elongation at the maximum load. This is the angle at which the strain component in the weld-line direction is close to zero. At the other angles, the weld lines, of which hardness sufficiently increases by welding, play a role as a constraint for vicinal base metal. This leads to early strain localization and low elongation. Furthermore, the elongation at the maximum load can, in some cases, exceed the uniform elongation of base metal. This is pronounced by a base metal with a low n-value.
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