A Novel Hydroforming Process by Combining Internal and External Pressures for High-Strength Steel Wheel Rims

doi:10.3390/ma15196820

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	A Novel Hydroforming Process by Combining Internal and External Pressures for High-Strength Steel Wheel Rims
	Chen, Wei-Jin 1,2,3; Xu, Yong 1,2; Song, Hong-Wu 1,2; Zhang, Shi-Hong 1,2; Chen, Shuai-Feng 1,2; Xia, Liang-Liang 1,2; Wang, Yong 3; Khina, Boris-B 4; Pokrovsky, Artur-, I 4
通讯作者	Xu, Yong(yxu@imr.ac.cn)
	2022-10-01
发表期刊	MATERIALS
卷号	15 期号:19 页码:19
摘要	As one of the key safety components in motor vehicles, the steel wheel rim is commonly fabricated with the roll forming process. However, due to the varied cross-sections of the rim and the low formability of high-strength steel, it is difficult to produce thin-wall and defect-free wheel rims to realize the purpose of light weight. To solve these problems, a novel hydroforming process by combining internal and external pressures (HIEP) was proposed to produce thin-wall wheel rims in the current study. The designed initial tube with diameter between the maximum and minimum diameter of the wheel rim ensures dispersed deformation and effectively avoids local excessive thinning. During HIEP, a hydroforming process was performed with two successive stages: the external pressure and internal pressure stages. Theoretical analysis and finite element method (FEM) were jointly used to investigate the effect of process parameters on the wrinkling and thinning. With the optimized parameters for internal and external pressure, the wrinkling of wheel rims is prevented under compressive state during the external pressure forming stage. Additionally, HIEP was experimentally carried out with high-strength steel rims of 650 MPa ultimate tensile strength (UTS). Finally, wheel rims with weight reduction of 13% were produced successfully, which shows a uniform thickness distribution with a local maximum thinning ratio of 11.4%.
关键词	high-strength steel wheel rim hydroforming by combining internal and external pressures (HIEP) finite element method (FEM)
资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS
DOI	10.3390/ma15196820
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[52111530293] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[51875548] ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS[2019195]
WOS研究方向	Chemistry ; Materials Science ; Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering ; Physics
WOS类目	Chemistry, Physical ; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ; Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering ; Physics, Applied ; Physics, Condensed Matter
WOS记录号	WOS:000867165400001
出版者	MDPI
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.imr.ac.cn/handle/321006/176078
专题	中国科学院金属研究所
通讯作者	Xu, Yong
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Shi Changxu Innovat Ctr Adv Mat, Inst Met Res, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China 2.Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Mat Sci & Engn, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China 3.Baoshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd, Res Inst, Shanghai 201999, Peoples R China 4.Natl Acad Sci Belarus, Phys Tech Inst, Minsk 220141, BELARUS
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Wei-Jin,Xu, Yong,Song, Hong-Wu,et al. A Novel Hydroforming Process by Combining Internal and External Pressures for High-Strength Steel Wheel Rims[J]. MATERIALS,2022,15(19):19.
APA	Chen, Wei-Jin.,Xu, Yong.,Song, Hong-Wu.,Zhang, Shi-Hong.,Chen, Shuai-Feng.,...&Pokrovsky, Artur-, I.(2022).A Novel Hydroforming Process by Combining Internal and External Pressures for High-Strength Steel Wheel Rims.MATERIALS,15(19),19.
MLA	Chen, Wei-Jin,et al."A Novel Hydroforming Process by Combining Internal and External Pressures for High-Strength Steel Wheel Rims".MATERIALS 15.19(2022):19.