Study of deformation behavior of plastic metal materials during laser-assisted micro-imprinting formings

Abstract

When a large taper angle diamond taper indenter is used for micro-imprinting plastic metals, the stagnation zone is caused by excessive extrusion and friction within the material at the tip of the indenter, which in turn affects the flow characteristics of the material and the quality of the processed surface. In this study, the formation of laser-assisted diamond indenter micro-imprinting stagnation zone mechanism was proposed. The deformation behavior when processing plastic-metal materials using this technique is revealed by numerical simulation. And observed this phenomenon through the hardness distribution of the micro tapered hole cross-section. The results show that when the taper angle of the diamond indenter is greater than 105°, a significant stagnation zone occurs in the material. The initial morphology is jug-shaped, showing periodic changes due to the hard substrate. The average hardness in this region is 91.5 HV, which is significantly lower than the rest of the material. When P = 30 W, the height of the stagnation zone is reduced by 43 μm and the first presence time is extended by 90 μm. The reduction in the friction coefficient leads to a reduction in the width of the interfacial stagnation zone.