A novel Hopkinson-based technique for high-speed biaxial testing of sheet metals
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2021-10-15
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Forming processes of sheet metals require knowledge of the material behaviour up to
large levels of plastic deformation. To this purpose, biaxial bulge tests are often used. In
present paper, a dynamic bulge test is presented. The testing principle relies on
conventional split Hopkinson bar testing. Though, as opposed to existing setups, a different
positioning of the bars leaves the sample fully accessible for optical measurements. The
pressure imposed to a circular sample, together with the sample strain fields, allow to
obtain reliable stress-strain data till significantly larger strains compared to tensile tests.
The technique is illustrated by tests on an Al2024-T3 sheet. High speed camera imaging of
the deforming sample combined with digital image processing is used to obtain full-field
strain data. To quantitatively assess the added value of full-field strain measurements,
stress-strain curves obtained with and without the strain data are compared.
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high-speed forming, high-speed digital imaging, dynamic biaxial testing