A review of safety-focused mechanical modeling of commercial lithium-ion batteries

Inoculation treatment of an additively manufactured 2024 aluminium alloy with titanium nanoparticles

Effect of cooling rate on the high strain rate properties of boron steel

Forming limit diagram of auto-body steel sheets for high-speed sheet metal forming

Considerable studies on metal selective laser melting (SLM) have proved the necessity to refine microstructure parts fabricated by SLM in order to eliminate property anisotropy, hot-tearing and to increase the SLM-processability. In the present work, Ti nanoparticles, at the first time, were discovered to be an extremely effective inoculant for an SLMed 2024 aluminium alloy. 0.7 wt.% addition of Ti nanoparticles was capable of substantially eliminating the hot-tearing cracks and columnar structure, and refining the grains in the SLMed 2024 alloy in a broad processing window. The substantial grain refinement in the Ti-inoculated 2024 alloy was attributed to the in-situ formation of Al3Ti nanoparticles with a L12 ordered structure, which formed a coherent interface with Al matrix and therefore significantly promoted the heterogeneous nucleation of the α-Al during solidification of melt pools in the SLM process. After a conventional T6 heat treatment, this SLMed alloy exhibited a superior balance of strength and ductility (tensile strength was up to 432 ± 20 MPa and elongation of 10 ± 0.8%), which was comparable to its wrought counterpart. This work can be considered as a breakthrough in research of fabricating high-strength aluminium alloys using SLM.

Inoculation Treatment of an Additively Manufactured 2024 Aluminium Alloy with Titanium Nanoparticles

This paper presents stress-strain curves of steel sheets for an auto-body obtained at intermediate strain rates with a servo-hydraulic type high speed tensile testing machine. The apparatus has the maximum stroke velocity of 7.8 m/sec to obtain the tensile material properties at a strain rate of up to 500/sec. A special jig fixture is specially designed for accurate acquisition of tensile loads with reduction of the load-ringing phenomenon induced by unstable stress wave propagation at high strain rates. Tensile testing of steel sheets for an auto-body was carried out to obtain stress-strain curves of mild steel and advanced high strength steels at strain rates ranged from 1/sec to 200/sec. The test results provide interesting information regarding the stress-strain curves at intermediate strain rates ranged from 1/sec to 200/sec and demonstrate that strain rate hardening is strongly coupled with strain hardening.

High speed tensile test of steel sheets for the stress-strain curve at the intermediate strain rate

This paper is concerned with the evaluation of the dynamic failure load in the lap-shear tests of a spot weld. Dynamic lap-shear tests of a spot weld in SPRC340R were conducted with different tensile speeds ranging from 5×10-5 m/sec to 5.0 m/sec. Dynamic effects on the failure load of a spot weld are examined based on the experimental data. Experimental results indicate that failure strength increases with increasing loading rates. Finite element analyses of dynamic lap-shear tests were also performed considering the failure of a spot weld. A spot weld is modeled with a beam element and dynamic failure model is utilized in order to describe the failure of a spot weld in the simulation. The failure loads obtained from the analyses are compared to those from the lap-shear tests. The comparison shows that the failure loads obtained from the analyses are close in consistence with those obtained from the experiments.

Dynamic failure of a spot weld in lap-shear tests under combined loading conditions

This paper investigates the dynamic elongation at fracture of conventional steels, advanced high strength steels and nonferrous metals, such as aluminium and magnesium alloys. Dynamic tensile tests were carried out using a high speed material testing machine at various strain rates ranging from 0.001/s to 200/s. The results show that the elongation at fracture of sheet metals does not simply decrease with the increase of the strain rate. The elongation of SPCC, SPRC450R, TRIP600 and AZ31 decreases when the tests are carried out under the quasi-static state at the strain rate of 0.1/s, but increases again when the tests are carried out at the strain rate of 0.1/s up to the strain rate of 200/s. Furthermore, DP600 and AA7003-T7 show the tendency that the tensile elongation increases as the strain rate increases. This tendency is related to the microstructure and forming history of the sheet metal. It is concluded that localized strain rate hardening in the necking region induces the enlargement of the necking region and thus the increased elongation. This phenomenon is worth being considered to predict the fracture of sheet metal products in high speed sheet metal forming.

Investigation of Elongation at Fracture in a High Speed Sheet Metal Forming Process

This paper introduces a newly developed high speed material testing apparatus for tensile tests at the strain rate up to 500/sec. The tensile properties of sheet metals are indispensable for the accurate crashworthiness analysis of auto-bodies since the local strain rate reaches to 500/sec in the car crash. An appropriate experimental method has to be developed to acquire the tensile properties at the intermediate strain rate ranged from 0.003/sec to 200/sec. Tensile tests of various different steel sheets for an auto-body were perform ed to obtain the dynamic properties with respect to the strain rate. The dimensions of specimens that can provide the reasonable results were determined by the finite element analysis. A special jig fixture of a load cell is designed to reduce the load ringing phenomenon induced by unstable stress propagation at the high strain rate. Stress-strain curves were acquired for each steel sheet from the dynamic tensile test and utilized to obtain the relationship of the stress to the strain rate.

High Speed Tensile Tests of Steel Sheets for an Auto-body at the Intermediate Strain Rate

This paper proposes a new equivalent failure strength model for spot welds under combined axial and shear loading. To evaluate the pure-shear strength of spot welds fabricated under the same welding conditions with a two-layered lap joint, a test fixture and a specimen were newly designed and proposed. The failure tests of spot welds of TRIP590 1.2t, DP780 1.0t, DP780 1.2t, and DP980 1.2t were carried out at seven different loading angles ranging from 0° to 90° at an internal angle of 15° to obtain the failure loads. The failure loads obtained from the experiments were utilized to construct the failure criterion and thus describe the failure behavior of spot welds in the crash analysis or strength analysis of an auto-body. It is noted that the value of β in the failure criterion for spot welds of AHSS is different from the values of conventional steels. The new equivalent failure strength model proposed in this paper was derived from the failure test results to provide a representative failure model that can be used to accurately compare the failure characteristics of different materials under the same conditions.

J. H. Lim

Papers

High speed tensile test of steel sheets for the stress-strain curve at the intermediate strain rate

Dynamic failure of a spot weld in lap-shear tests under combined loading conditions

Investigation of Elongation at Fracture in a High Speed Sheet Metal Forming Process

High Speed Tensile Tests of Steel Sheets for an Auto-body at the Intermediate Strain Rate

Prediction of failure characteristics of spot welds of dp and trip steels with an equivalent strength failure model