A novel hydraulic bulge test in hot forming conditions
Résumé
A novel hydraulic bulge test device was developed to evaluate high temperature biaxial stress–strain curves
of quenchable boron steel sheets. The work mainly focuses on the resistance heating designed to assure a
homogeneous temperature field in the dome area of the circular blank where the hydraulic pressure will be
applied. The practical hot stamping conditions, including the heating and cooling steps, were reproduced to
perform hydraulic bulge tests on the Usibor®1500P steel for a temperature range between 700 to 900 ◦C, after
an austenization step at 900 °C. Stress–strain curves were obtained from these expansion tests using the data
extracted with a laser profilometer, due to the difficulties associated with the use of Digital Image Correlation
at such high temperatures. Although the profilometer is a compromise solution, the comparisons between
tensile and biaxial stress–strain results enable to verify the feasibility of the new device for the evaluation
of the stress–strain curves at a high temperature in a biaxial state. The results point-out that, besides the
difficulties with the acquisition of the strain fields and in the strain-rate control, there are also challenges in
the interpretation of the metallurgical evolutions that can occur during the tests, which can affect the biaxial
flow curves.
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