Experimental and Numerical Investigations of the Plastic Deformation during Multi-Pass Asymmetric and Symmetric Rolling of High-Strength Aluminum Alloys

Abstract:

For understanding the distribution of plastic deformation induced by asymmetric rolling (ASR), multi-pass ASR and symmetric rolling (SR) experiments combined with the finite element simulation were used for high-strength aluminum alloy in the present study. The influence of reduction per-pass on the shear / effective strain distributions were studied via different ASR processes. By measuring the shear angle (θ, the angle between the reference mark before and after rolling) of rolled sheets, redundant shear strain and equivalent strain were calculated. It is shown that with equal total thickness reduction for ASR and SR, ASR can induce much more shear deformation through the thickness. By calculating the evolution of redundant shear strain and total equivalent strain for different ASR routines, it indicates that small pass reduction could be much favorable to the strain accumulation than that of the large pass reduction under a same total reduction in ASR process. Also, the influence of shear stress on the strain distribution and the through-thickness strain distribution were studied and evaluated with FEM analyses.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 794-796)
• Pages: 1157-1162
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.794-796.1157
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Cun Qiang Ma, Long Gang Hou*, Ji Shan Zhang, Lin Zhong Zhuang
• Keywords: Asymmetric/Symmetric Rolling, Finite Element Method (FEM), High-Strength Aluminum Alloy, Plastic Deformation, Shear Strain

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