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2013

Defects

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Occurrence Of Surface Defects On Strips During Hot Rolling Process By Fem, Hai-Liang Yu, Kiet Tieu, Cheng Lu, Guan-Yu Deng, Xiang-Hua Liu Jan 2013

Occurrence Of Surface Defects On Strips During Hot Rolling Process By Fem, Hai-Liang Yu, Kiet Tieu, Cheng Lu, Guan-Yu Deng, Xiang-Hua Liu

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

During a hot rolling process, surface defects on strips can severely affect the quality of the rolled product, particularly for two conditions: (1) there are initial defects on continuous casting slabs that propagate and/or are inherited from those on the surface of rolled steels from upstream rolling processes; and (2) there are no initial defects on continuous casting slabs, and they consequently appear on the surface of rolled steels due to improper rolling technologies. In this paper, the authors present a new 3D finite element model coupled with constrained node failure to understand better the initiation and growth of surface …


Simulation Of Defects In Micro-Deep Drawing Of An Aluminium Alloy Foil, Syamsul Hadi, Hai-Liang Yu, Kiet Tieu, Cheng Lu Jan 2013

Simulation Of Defects In Micro-Deep Drawing Of An Aluminium Alloy Foil, Syamsul Hadi, Hai-Liang Yu, Kiet Tieu, Cheng Lu

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Micro-forming refers to the application of conventional forming processes to manufacture products from ultra-thin sheet materials. While attempting to meet the increasing demand for cost-effective manufacturing of micro-formed components, it is very important to reduce the defects in the products. In this paper, we report a number of Finite Element (FE) simulations of the micro-deep drawing process with various sample thicknesses and eccentric distances. The simulations indicated that when the sample thickness is nearly equal to the gap between the plunger and the die, the sample is likely to develop fractures at the bottom corner. When the sample thickness is …