Electric-pulse triggered energetic materials forming (ETEF) is a high-speed manufacturing process, which utilizes the chemical energy released by energetic materials (EMs) triggered by underwater wire discharge to plastically shape metals. The understanding of ETEF is not comprehensive, especially in the research on the discharge characteristics of energetic materials triggered by metal wires and the deformation process of metal sheets. In this paper, the above two problems were studied by means of experiment and numerical simulation. For the pulse discharge characteristics, the peak values of voltage and current were reduced during the triggering process of energetic materials. The triggering energy consumption of energetic materials was quanti ed to be about 200J. The matching parameters of different capacitor-voltage devices had no effect on triggering the energy release of energetic materials, so the electric pulse generator only played a triggering role on energetic materials. Compared with the quasi-static specimen with the same bulging height, the maximum major strain and thinning rate of the bulged specimen under ETEF condition were signi cantly reduced, and the deformation uniformity and strain distribution of the specimen were improved. The simulation results showed that the addition of energetic materials signi cantly improved the plastic strain energy of the blank. The deformation of the blank in ETEF can be divided into two stages: the initial chemical energy action stage and the inertia action stage. The bulging height of sheet metal increased by nearly 301% in inertia action stage, accounting for 80% of the total deformation time, and the effective plastic strain distribution was more uniform.
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