Effect of Hardening Rate on the Bendability and Fracture Response of AA6082 Aluminum Extrusions in the VDA238-100 Tight Radius Bend Test
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Abstract
Understanding the microstructure–property relationship in aluminum extrusions is crucial to leverage their potential in automotive lightweighting. The sensitivity of the processing history to the microstructure and through-thickness variations poses a major challenge since it leads to strong directionality in plasticity and fracture. Reliable characterization of the mechanical response under relevant stress states is crucial for the development of modeling strategies and performance ranking in alloy design. To this end, tensile and 3-point bend tests were performed for an aluminum extrusion produced on a laboratory-scale extrusion press at Rio Tinto Aluminium. Direct measurements of surface strains during bending using stereoscopic digital image correlation revealed that a larger bend angle in the VDA238-100 test does not necessarily imply a higher fracture strain. The T4 sample tested in the extrusion direction sustained a bend angle of 104° compared to 68° in T6 for the same nominal bend severity (ratio of sheet thickness to punch radius), despite comparable major fracture strains of 0.60 and 0.58, respectively. It is proposed that the work-hardening behavior governs the strain distribution on the outer bend surface. The higher hardening rate in the T4 condition helped distribute deformation in the bend zone more uniformly. This delayed fracture to larger bend angles since strain is accumulated at a lower rate. To assess whether the effect of the hardening behavior is manifest at a microstructural lengthscale, microcomputed tomography (μ-CT) scans were conducted on interrupted bend samples. The distribution and severity of damage in the form of cracks on the outer bend surface were distinct to the temper and thus the hardening rate.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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