COMPLAS 2023

Application of Material-properties Prediction Method Based on Area Reduction in Drawing to Spinner-straightening Analysis

  • Komatsu, Tetsuya (The university of electro-communications)
  • Kajikawa, Shohei (The university of electro-communications)
  • Inoue, Shinsuke (Shimomura Tokushu Seiko Co., Ltd.)
  • Matsumura, Hiromichi (Shimomura Tokushu Seiko Co., Ltd.)
  • Seimiya, Hikaru (Shimomura Tokushu Seiko Co., Ltd.)
  • Kuboki, Takashi (The university of electro-communications)

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Wire rods of stainless steel are used for shafts of printer and automotive parts. In the manufacturing of a supplier of them, spinner straightening is located at one of the end of manufacturing process. It is important to decide the appropriate straightening conditions as this process contributes significantly to the high precision and quality of the product. It is necessary to obtain the material properties before the straightening for determination of the appropriate conditions. Wire rods are sometimes drawn before straightening to obtain the required diameters. It is generally known that the drawn materials have different properties depending on the rate of the reduction in area R_d. Therefore, material properties should be obtained each time when a material with a new pre-processing condition is introduced. It is difficult to conduct tension-compression test for many materials from the point of view of cost and time. In this study, the following two aspects were investigated: first, a method was proposed to predict the material properties after drawing from the rate of R_d by experiment and analysis: second, the prediction method was verified in spinner straightening analysis[1], which consist of two stages, FEM and a purpose-built analysis. A series of experiments were carried out for construction of the prediction method of material properties depending of the area reduction in drawing. First, the effect of the R_d on the tensile and compressive properties was investigated. In the experiments, samples were drawn in five different R_d conditions. Next, the stress-strain relationship and the Bauschinger effect of drawn materials were obtained by tensile and repeatedly tensile and compression test. After that, the amount of Bauschinger effect was predicted by the FEM considering the crystallographic orientation. Finally, spinner straightening analysis was carried out based on the proposed methods, and the results of analysis were compared with the experiments.