An experimental and numerical study of necking initiation in aluminium alloy tubes during hydroforming

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1727-1746

  Kulkarni, A ^a   Biswas, P ^a,b   Narasimhan, R ^a   Luo, Alan A ^b   Mishra, Raj K ^b   Stoughton, Thomas B ^b   Sachdev, Anil K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Finite elements; Forming limits; Localized necking; Tube hydroforming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FORMING; MECHANICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STRAIN; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

FINITE-ELEMENTS; FORMING LIMITS; LOCALIZED NECKING; TUBE HYDROFORMING;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 12344328432     PISSN: 00207403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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