Punchless Drawing of Magnesium Alloy Sheet Under Cold Condition and its Computation

Abstract

Shallow cup drawing of magnesium alloy AZ31-O sheet was performed under cold condition using the Maslennikov’s technique. A deformable rubber pad was used, instead of the “hard” punch, in this technique. A small die profile radius was adopted, which was twice or four-times the sheet thickness. A semisolid lubricant was used for lubrication of the blank-die interface. On the other hand, the rubber-blank interface was degreased to increase friction. A limiting drawing ratio of 1.31 was obtained in the circular cup drawing. A peculiar fracture mode appeared in which the material suddenly fractured with the crack evolution emanating from the flange periphery. In the square cup drawing, an adequate blank shape was found to be circular compared with the other ones. Numerical simulation was also conducted using dynamic explicit finite element method. Adequate setting including speed scaling enabled us to predict the accurate deformation pattern and the forming force.