Numerical simulation of shallow square boxes with flanges based on Dynaform

Abstract

In this work, Numerical simulations based on finite element method have been carried out to study the effect of important process parameters on formability of AA5182 alloy sheets. The blank holder force between 0.5KN and 3KN and friction coefficient(μ) between 0.05 and 0.20, which resulted in successful drawing, was evaluated. Maximum percentage thinning has always been obtained at the conjunction of corner and bottom. The maximum thinning rate was nearly 20% for a maximum holder force of 3KN. Friction coefficient simulations are shown that as friction coefficient increasing, the thinning rate becomes larger and low friction coefficient is beneficial to the sheet forming.