Deep-Drawing of Commercially-Pure Niobium Sheet

Abstract:

Pure Niobium is a material of interest for high-energy-physics applications including superconducting accelerators. Cold-rolled sheets of Nb exhibit significant plastic anisotropy. Here we report on the mechanical and forming properties of 99.95% pure, 1.02 mm thin, cold-rolled sheet. Uniaxial tension, biaxial tension and disc compression experiments are performed, the first two at multiple angles to the rolling direction of the sheet. The material is very ductile (uniform elongation ~30%), and exhibits significant plastic anisotropy (e.g., the R-values range from 1.2 in 45^o to 2.5 in 90^o). The results are used to calibrate the Yld2000-2D anisotropic yield function, with an exponent of 6 as Nb is BCC. They are also used to extract the hardening curve beyond the limit load in uniaxial tension. Deep-drawing experiments are performed using a die of 27.6 mm dia. and a punch of 25.4 mm dia. Blanks of various diameters are used. The successfully drawn cups exhibit significant earing. The experiments are simulated using Abaqus/Standard and shell elements. It is shown that a properly calibrated material model enables the numerical simulations to match the experiments.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 926)
• Pages: 1075-1082
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-zpdi6h
• Online since: July 2022
• Authors: Kelin Chen, Minki Kim, Paul Carriere, James Penney, Nanda Gopal Matavalam, Sergey Kutsaev, Yannis P. Korkolis*
• Keywords: Deep-Drawing, Earing, Hardening, Niobium, Plastic Anisotropy

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