• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.139-144
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• 2018

Many studies have been conducted on the process of forming magnesium alloy sheets to reduce the body weights of vehicles. Magnesium has a lower specific gravity than steel and also has a higher specific strength. Mg alloy sheets have low formability and a lot of springback due to their limited ductility and low young's modulus. As the temperature increases, the yield strength of the material decreases. Warm forming increases the formability and minimizes the springback of a material by heating it and the die to reduce the required load at forming. In this study, the temperature of the AZ31B sheet was controlled in order to reduce springback and increase formability. However, as the temperature increased, the deformation characteristics of the material changed and the radius of curvature of the material increased. The load and springback amount required for forming were analyzed according to the temperature and the bottoming force in the bending deformation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.377-380
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• 2005

In this study, the experiments of warm deep drawing were done with heated die, and with heated die and cooled punch in order to investigate the formability of ZA31 magnesium sheet alloy of warm deep drawing. For this, warm deep drawing experiments were executed under various temperature, punch velocity and blankholder force. The results of warm deep drawing with heated die showed that fracture occurred punch part at punch velocity of 75mm/min and punch stroke of 10mm under temperature of $100^{\circ}C\~250^{\circ}C$, but did not occure under temperature of $275^{\circ}C\~400^{\circ}C$. And fracture at punch stroke of 25mm did not occurre at punch part under punch velocity of 30mm/min and $250^{\circ}C$, but occured under punch velocity of 75 and 125 mm/min. Also the results of warm deep drawing with heated die and cooled punch showed that the temperature happening maximum height under punch velocity of 10-100mm/min was $225-250^{\circ}C$. And necking occurred at punch shoulder under $20\~150^{\circ}C$, but at die wall under $200\~300^{\circ}C$.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.47-47
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.44-44
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• 2014

Magnesium alloy AZ31 sheet를 자동차용 부품으로 사용하기 위해서는 내식성, 전착도장성등의 신뢰성을 확보해야 한다. 이를 위해서 우리는 Phosphate, manganese, silicon계열의 화성처리제를 이용하여 자동차 부품으로 사용가능한 신뢰성확보를 위해 표면처리 방법에 관한 연구를 진행 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.73-77
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• 2005

In this work, the influences of tool temperature on the formability of AZ31 sheet material in warm deep drawing processes of square cup were investigated. Deep drawing tests under different tool temperatures for magnesium alloy sheet at elevated temperature $250^{\circ}C$, where AZ31 sheet shows a good formability, and FE analyses were carried out. The successfully formed part without any defects was obtained when temperature of tool was over $100^{\circ}C$ while the fracture was occurred at the corner of the square cup below $100^{\circ}C$. It is shown that lower temperature of tool than that of magnesium sheet causes the temperature drop of the material by heat transfer and thus Interrupts the dynamic recrystallization of it. Therefore, in order to obtain successful part of magnesium alloys, it is necessary that the tool temperature is limited to the same or slightly lower temperature than sheet material.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.34-38
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• 2016

In this paper, a transversely isotropic behavior of AZ31 Mg alloy produced by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) process was investigated through tensile test and microstructure observation. The effects of initial ECAP pass number on the anisotropic behavior and mechanical properties of the Mg alloy are evaluated after conventional direct extrusion test, which are carried out at a temperature of $200^{\circ}C$. As a result of the tensile test in three directions ($0^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, and $90^{\circ}$ to the extrusion direction of the sheet) at room temperature, elongation of as-extruded AZ31 alloy(ECAP for 0 pass) showed an unusual anisotropic behavior depending on the extrusion direction although the yield strength and tensile strength are similar to the ECAPed AZ31 alloy. After ECAP for 4 passes at $200^{\circ}C$, microstructural observations of ECAPed magnesium alloy showed a significant grain refinement, which is leading to an equiaxed grain structure with average size of $2.5{\mu}m$. The microstructures of the extruded billet are observed by the use of an electron back-scattering diffraction (EBSD) technique to evaluate of the influence on the grain refinement during extrusion process and re-crystallization mechanism of AZ31 Mg alloy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.117-120
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• 2003

Warm deep drawing which is one of the new forming technologies to improve formability of sheet metal is applied to the cylindrical cup drawing of Mg-alloy sheet metal. In experiments the temperature of die and blank holder is varied from room temperature to $300^{\circ}C$, while the punch is cooled by circulation of coolant to increase the fracture strength of workpiece on the punch corner area. Test material chosen for experiments is AZ31 magnesium sheet metal. Teflon film as a lubricant is used on both sides of a workpiece. The limit drawing ratio as well as thickness distributions of drawn cups are investigated and validity of warm deep drawing process is also discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.925-926
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.254-257
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• 2007

In this paper, anisotropic tensile properties of the AZ31B Mg-alloy sheet are obtained with the tensile test at elevated temperatures. Change of microscopic structures and the hardness is inspected after the solution heat treatment process in order to confirm the micro-structural stability of the used sheet metal. Results obtained from tensile tests show that it is very difficult to apply the conventional modeling scheme with the assumption of strain hardening to the forming analysis of the magnesium alloy sheet which shows the strain-softening behavior at the elevated temperature.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.14 no.7 s.79
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• pp.635-641
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• 2005

The crystal structure of magnesium was hexagonal close-packed (HCP), so its formability was poor at room temperature. But formability was improved in high temperature with increasing of the slip planes. Purpose of this paper was to know about the mechanical properties of magnesium alloy (AZ31B), before warm and hot forming process. The mechanical properties were defined by the tension and compression tests in various temperature and strain-rate. As the temperature was increased, yield·ultimate strength, K-value, work hardening exponent (n) and anisotropy factor (R) were decreased. But strain rate sensitivity (m) was increased. As strain-rate increased, yield·ultimate strength, K-value, and work hardening exponent (n) were increased. Also, microstructures of grains fined away at high strain-rate. These results would be used in simulations and manufacturing factor fer warm and hot forming process.