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Rev Sci Instrum. 2018 Aug;89(8):085114. doi: 10.1063/1.5042053.

A miniaturized device for the measurement of sheet-metal formability using digital image correlation.

The Review of scientific instruments

M E Leonard, F Ugo, M Stout, J W Signorelli

Affiliations

  1. Instituto de Física Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (IFIR-CONICET/UNR), 27 de Febrero 210 Bis, 2000 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.

PMID: 30184671 DOI: 10.1063/1.5042053

Abstract

A laboratory-scale device to obtain forming-limit diagram data was designed to utilize the Marciniak and Kuczynski (MK) sample geometry. The design uses a high-resolution photographic camera, automatic trigger, and light-emitting diode (LED) lighting to record the time history of deformation calculated with the digital-image correlation technique. Because the testing device was miniaturized, it was possible to halt the forming experiments at intermediate strains and recrystallize the MK carrier blank. This permits large formability strains to be obtained without cracks developing at the carrier blank's central hole, an advantage over full-size specimens and conventional testing rates. A number of initial experiments were performed on a zinc alloy sheet (Zn-Cu-Ti) over the entire forming-limit range (-0.5 ≤

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