A study on lubrication characteristics in warm deep drawing of magnesium alloy sheet

마그네슘합금의 온간 딥 드로잉 공정에서의 윤활 특성 연구

  • 박설희 (한국기계연구원 부설 재료연구소) ;
  • 김상우 (한국기계연구원 부설 재료연구소) ;
  • 이영선 (한국기계연구원 부설 재료연구소) ;
  • 김병민 (부산대학교 정밀기계공학과) ;
  • 이정환 (한국기계연구원 부설 재료연구소)
  • Published : 2007.10.11

Abstract

Recently, magnesium alloys have been widely used in automotive, aerospace and electronic industries with the advantages such as lightweightness, high specific strength and stiffness. However, magnesium alloy has quite low formability at room temperature due to its hexagonal close-packed crystal structure. Warm deep drawing is one of the forming technologies to improve the formability of magnesium alloy sheet and the lubrication condition is an important process parameter in that. In this study, the drawing tests of AZ31 alloy sheet at elevated temperature for various kinds of lubricant were carried out and the effects of lubrication conditions on drawbility were investigated.

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