FE simulation of complex contour forming of sheet metals based on laser bending

摘要：

Laser bending is a flexible forming process which forms sheet metal by means of stresses induced by external heat instead of external forces. In this paper, a three-dimensional coupled thermal-mechanical model for numerical simulation is established with finite element code ABAQUS. Some key problems about the simulation of laser bending are investigated in detail, and the reasonable solutions are presented. Taking AISI-1008 steel as an example, numerical simulations are carried out for the complex contour forming of sheet by using Sequentially Coupled Thermal-Stress Analysis technique. Then the corresponding experiments are performed to validate the simulation results. Good correlation between the numerical simulation and the experimental results was demonstrated.

关键词： laser forming FEM numerical simulation ABAQUS

作者: Yibin CHEN Jianzhong ZHOU Shu HUANG Yueqing SUN

作者单位: School of mechanical engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, 212013

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Fifth International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing(第五届材料与热加工物理模拟及数值模拟国际会议)

会议地点: 郑州

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2007-10-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）