Work Hardening of Dual Phase Steel in Subsequent Tensile Testing with Post-Necking Large Pre-Strain

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For high-accuracy finite element (FE) simulation of automobile crashing behavior, a work hardening curve that involves pre-strain from press forming is required. Here, the plastic strains exceeding the uniform deformation region are generally introduced through processes such as bending, but such large pre-strain effect have not been reported. Therefore, in this study, for DP590 steel, the work hardening curve for second-stage tension under pre-strain exceeding the uniform deformation region was identified. This identification was enabled by the diameter measurement tensile test developed by the authors. As a result, in the second-stage tension in the same direction as the first-stage tension, the initial yield stress showed a tendency to overshoot relative to the original work hardening curve, revealing that strain aging occurred. The overshoot portion formed a stress plateau that continued up to an equivalent plastic strain of 0.18. Such a tendency has not been observed in DP590 steel, making this a phenomenon revealed for the first time. When the tensile direction in the second stage was orthogonal to the first stage, the cross-hardening effect (reduction in initial yielding due to the Bauschinger effect and overshoot from the original work hardening curve) was observed. The stress plateau region due to overshoot continued up to an equivalent plastic strain as large as 0.6. These large plateaus concluded that work hardening presents perfect plasticity at large deformed press parts.

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Solid State Phenomena (Volume 388)

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