2018 年 58 巻 4 号 p. 704-713
Due to an increasing demand for automobile outer panels with sharper streamlines, surface roughening during press forming is recognized as an important problem to be solved. However, although sheets are subjected to various deformation modes during press forming, the influence of deformation mode on surface roughening is not yet understood. Moreover, surface roughening behavior in Interstitial Free (IF) steels, which are now commonly utilized for outer panels, has not been studied. In this study the effect of deformation mode on surface roughening behavior in IF steels was examined, focusing in detail on the effect of texture development. Differences in surface roughness development and changes of microstructure were examined under equi-biaxial and plane-strain tension, using a macroscopic Marciniak test and microscopic in-situ observations. In addition, the influence of the distribution of crystal orientations on surface roughness development was numerically examined using a crystal plasticity finite-element analysis. The results showed that surface roughening was larger for plane-strain tension than for equi-biaxial tension regardless of the IF steels tested, due to the larger difference in deformation resistance among crystal grains depending on crystal orientation. It is therefore suggested that surface quality after press forming could be improved by reducing the difference in deformation resistance among the grains.
