Investigation of Anisotropy Effect on the Material Properties Obtained from Biaxial Tests

Abstract:

Hydraulic bulge test or biaxial test is a well-known mechanical test used to determine a flow stress of material because of the large level of effective strains and not interfered by the necking unlike in uniaxial tensile test. However, the flow stress obtained is influenced by the anisotropy effect. That flow stress needs to be corrected by the anisotropic values (r-values) obtained from the uniaxial tensile test which limited by the necking. Therefore, to obtain the accurate flow stress the r-values should be determined directly from the biaxial test. The elliptical tests with ratio of 2 (the ratio between major and minor axis) at different sheet orientations (0^๐ and 90^๐ from the rolling direction) and the equibiaxial test were proposed. In this research, the effect of the sheet orientations upon the flow stress (K and n values) under biaxial tests was investigated by experiment and equation of material grade SPCD with the thickness of 0.8mm. The results showed that the flow stress without correcting r-values gave more variations than those with correcting one with the r-values obtained from the uniaxial test. Therefore, the r-values used to correct the flow stress under biaxial test should be directly determined from the biaxial test.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 856)
• Pages: 128-134
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.856.128
• Online since: August 2020
• Authors: Chalida Udomraksasakul, Thanasan Intarakumthornchai, Yingyot Aue-u-Lan*
• Keywords: Biaxial, Elliptical Bulge Test, Hydraulic Bulge Test, R-Values, Spherical Bulge Test

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