Structure Analysis and Quality Prediction of DP Steel Engine Hood in the Process of Hot Stamping

Abstract:

Due to its good formability characteristics, such as high strength, high initial work hardening rate, as well as continuous yielding, thin-walled DP steel possesses great advantages of weight loss and security, and has been used to replace ordinary steel for automotive parts manufacturing by a lot of automotive industry. But along with the improvement of the performance of the strength, the high strength steels formability is worsened dramatically, and failure and fracture often occurs in its cold stamping process. So, hot stamping technology must be adopted to make the formability available. In the paper, it took the hot stamping process of DP steel engine hood for example and took DP800 as object of research. The forming limit, variation of major strain, minor strain and thickness, as well as the potential equality defects were analyzed by using eta/DYNAFORM software. The research results show that duplex steel plate can meet the performance requirements of car engine dumping plank forming, which offers theory basis for the production of similar parts.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 791-793)
• Pages: 558-561
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.791-793.558
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Zhi Ping Zhang, Han Wu Liu, Tian Xiang Chen, Zhang Yi Yu
• Keywords: Break, Engine Hood, Hot Stamping, Reduction, Strain Analysis

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