1. Size Effects on Formability of Copper Foil in Flexible Micro-Bending Process
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Qing Qian, You Juan Ma, Zong Bao Shen, and Xiao Wang
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0209 industrial biotechnology ,Materials science ,Bending (metalworking) ,Mechanical Engineering ,Metallurgy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,02 engineering and technology ,Plasticity ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Indentation hardness ,Copper ,Grain size ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,chemistry ,Mechanics of Materials ,Formability ,General Materials Science ,Deformation (engineering) ,0210 nano-technology ,Surface integrity - Abstract
The occurrence of size effects in the microforming leads to the uncertainties in process determination and quality control. In this research, a series of experiments were conducted in UTM4104 testing machine to investigate the grain size effect and feature size effect in micro-bending. Different grain size (d), thickness to grain size ratio () and micro-mold feature size (W) were prepared to explore size effects on formability of copper foil. The formability characterized by forming depth, deformation uniformity and surface integrity was discussed. It was found that the normalized forming depth presented a gradually rise and then declined markedly when N value further decreased to 0.79. The ductile fracture mode was observed for all grain-sized workpiece and the corresponding limit forming depth decreased with increasing grain size. Besides, the thickness thinning distribution and microhardness distribution showed the similar variation tendency like M. Both the standard deviation of thickness reduction and the roughed degree of surface topography indicated the worsening deformation uniformity of the foils with a larger grain size. The inhomogeneous plastic flow of material may be the reason to explain the depression near fracture location which is only observed in coarse-grained workpiece. Overall, it is concluded that the fine-grained copper exhibited better formability as the coarse-grained workpiece experienced severe strain incompatibility.
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- 2016
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