Experimental Investigation on Warm Deep Drawing of Stainless Steel AISI 304

Abstract

Deep drawing is one of the most widely used metal forming process to produce sheet metal parts especially in automobile industries. Warm working is the plastic deformation of metal at temperatures below the temperature range for recrystallization and above the room temperature. In this investigation, 1.0mm thick circular specimen of stainless steel AISI 304 were warm deep drawn and the influence of temperature on the deformation behaviour of material and the drawing loads which is required to draw the component was studied. The results show that the warm working has positive effects like reduced drawing load, negligible amount of increase in thinning and thickening of a drawn component when compared to the conventional drawing and also there is no necking or cracking occurs due to the temperature influence.