Drawing Capability of High Formable Packaging Steel: Comparison of Limiting Drawing Ratio and Forming Limit Curve

Abstract:

To assess the suitability of different packaging steels for complex deep drawing applications, nowadays, the total elongation and the Lankford coefficients in simple tensile tests are used. However, the simple use of uniaxial tensile tests is not supposed to predict the limiting drawing ratio precisely and thus the suitability for deep drawing applications. At the same time, the conduction of limiting drawing ratio experiments is extensive and requires a high testing effort. Therefore, in this work, the correlation between the forming limit curve results were compared to the results of limiting drawing ratio experiments to predict the formability of packaging steel by a much simpler criterion. At the same time, different approaches to calculate the plane strain forming limit by tensile test data were used to assess the drawing capability of packaging steel. Results revealed a strong correlation between the measured plane strain forming limit and the limiting drawing ratio at a fixed blank holder force. However, calculation methods based on tensile test data were not able to predict the drawing capability sufficiently.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 926)
• Pages: 933-938
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-40i67s
• Online since: July 2022
• Authors: Fabian Knieps*, Manuel Köhl, Marion Merklein
• Keywords: Deep Drawing, Forming Limit Curve, Packaging Steel

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