Papers by Author: Guo Zheng Quan

Abstract: A series of tensile tests of AZ61 magnesium alloy were conducted using Gleeble-1500 thermal-mechanical material testing system to learn the effect of the test temperatures and strain rates on the mechanical properties of the alloy. It is indicated that the higher the temperature, the lower the ultimate strength and fracture stress, and the larger the plasticity. It is also revealed that the larger the strain rate is, the higher the ultimate strength of the specimens will be, and the larger the plasticity of the specimens will be. The failure mechanism of the material under high temperature was also analyzed based on the fracture observation. It shows that the high temperatures will induce microvoids or microflaws in the material.

Abstract: The effects of strain rate (SR) and heating rate (HR) on the mechanical behaviors of the tensile specimens of magnesium alloy AZ61 were experimentally investigated using a Gleeble-1500 thermal-mechanical material testing system. It showed that the higher the temperature is, the lower the ultimate strength of the specimens will be. The higher the heating rate is, the higher the ultimate strength of the specimens will be. The metallurgraphs of the fracture section of the specimens were also experimentally investigated for exploring their failure mechanism under different temperatures and heating rates. It showed that the high temperatures and high heating rates will induce microvoids in the specimens. The microvoids make the specimens failure under relative low loads.

Abstract: The mechanical response and failure of the specimens of magnesium alloy AZ61 with different heating rates (HR) and loading rates (LR) were investigated by a Gleeble-1500 thermal-mechanical material testing system. It was found that heating rate has markedly effect on the strength and plasticity of the specimens. The higher the heating rate is, the lower the strength and the smaller of the plasticity of the specimens will be. There is the relatively small effect of the loading rates on the strength and plasticity of the specimens. The metallographs of the failed specimens were also observed. It shows that there are many microvoids in the specimens near the fracture sections. These microvoids may come from the local thermal and stress inconsistency under high heating rate and loading rates and degrade the strength and plasticity of the specimens.

Abstract: This work was focused on the compressive deformation behavior of 42CrMo steel at temperatures from 1123K to 1348K and strain rates from 0.01s-1 to 10s-1 on a Gleeble-1500 thermo-simulation machine. The true stress-strain curves tested exhibit peak stresses at small strains, after them the flow stresses decrease monotonically until high strains, showing a dynamic flow softening. And the stress level decreases with increasing deformation temperature and decreasing strain rate. The values of strain hardening exponent n, and the strain rate sensitivity exponent m were calculated the method of multiple linear regression, the results show that the two material parameters are not constants, but changes with temperature and strain rate. Then the two variable material parameters were introduced into Fields-Backofen equation amended. Thus the constitutive mechanical discription of 42CrMo steel which can accurately describe the relationships among flow stress, temperature, strain rate, strain offers the basic model for plastic forming process simulation.

Abstract: Research on microstructure and behavior of natural biomaterials contributes to understanding the biomimetic design. Yakbone bioceramic’s cross section with innumerable voids was observed via SEM approach, then a digital image processing technique was adopted to analyze the images. It is supposed that the pores can be classified into n series by different size level. A non-linear function between the pore size and series number got fitted which indicates a regression trend to zero as n rising to a large number. A non-linear convergent analysis of the function results in the porosity of porous microstructure of yakbone bioceramic. Furthermore, a plane helices characterization model was assumed to descript the multilevel voids distribution, then a series of helices parameters were designed for bionic yakbone porous microstructure with porosity tolerance of 2.5%. This parameter description of yakbone, a porous bioceramic with high strength and light weight, contributes to further research on the relationships between mechanical property and microstructure.

Abstract: A Kumar-type constitutive relationship of TA15 alloy was investigated by non-linear regression analysis, and the equations were established based on test data from hot process simulator. Applying this constitutive equation in commercial FEM software of SFTC/Deform, the hammer forging process of TA15 alloy beam was simulated, meanwhile the final shape of forging piece, the hammering times, the height reduction variation and the maximal effective stress variation along with forging time were predicted. The hammer forging test was carried out and the test results showed that the simulation based on Kumar-type constitutive relationship meet the practical need to a great extent.

Abstract: he Al-6061-T6 tube’s drawing limit and the drawing process’s elasto-plastic behavior were investigated based on the foundational theories of larger deformation and continuum damage mechanics. A mathematical computation equation about the maximum Cockcroft-Latham damage value was converted to an appropriate discrete expression which is easy for FE code to programme, thus the corresponding finite element numerical algorithm for damage computation was developed. By an approach that physical experiments and numerical simulation provide mutual support for the critical damage value, the crack criterion of Al-6061-T6 was evaluated as 1.34. The crack criterion obtained was introduced as important design considerations of tube drawing process. An 3D graph which reflects maximum damage variation according with the diameters at different tube thickness was achieved, according to which the drawing process’s safe and unsafe areas of Al-6061-T6 tube with diameter 10mm at temperature 20°C and drawing velocity 100mm/s was ploted.

Abstract: The elasto-plastic behavior and the drawing limit of a kind of magnesium alloy tube were investigated based on the foundational theories of the larger deformation of material and continuum damage constitutive model. The corresponding finite element numerical algorithm was developed based on the constitutive model. The non-mandrel drawing limit graph according to the diameter at different tube thickness of an AZ31B tube with diameter 10mm at 250°C and drawing velocity 100mm/s was achieved, and safe & unsafe area got partitioned. The maximum damage value was evaluated to be 0.324 according to height reduction ratio limit and rigid-plastic FE analysis.

Abstract: The aluminum tube with rectangle section can be produced by two-pass drawing process including non-plug and with-plug drawing. It is an effective method to study the deforming mechanisms by simulation, based on which the section varying of two-pass drawing got schemed and the relevant dies with reasonable dimensions got designed. The dynamics model and elasto-plastic FE model of the non-plug and with-plug drawing were established based on FEM software, then the simulation was performed. The sizing section of drawing die got optimized with angle β=178°, which eliminated instability. The influence of different semi-die angle 2 a on drawing load was researched, and a proper value of 2 a and 1 a was found. The touch boundary and touch-stress distribution of transitional drawing were achieved. Furthermore the residual stress and spring-back strain distribution after final drawing were achieved, which contributes to modifying the dimensions of rectangle sizing section.