Tailor tempering and hot-spotting of press hardened boron steels
Lander Galdos1
, Eneko Saenz De Argandoña1, Joseba Mendiguren1, Nuria Herrero1, Rafael Ortubay1, Xabier Agirretxe2, José Miguel Martín2
1Mechanical and Manufacturing Department, Mondragon University, Loramendi 4, 20500 Mondragon, Gipuzkoa, Spain.
2Batz S. Coop., Torrea Auzoa, 2, 48140 Igorre, Bizkaia, Spain.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7494/cmms.2014.4.0495
Abstract:
Hot forming processes are becoming a successful solution when complex geometrical components with high mechanical properties are desired. In fact, automotive structural components with tensile strengths higher than 1500MPa are being nowadays industrially produced. The technology is based on the forming and quenching of the sheet inside the forming tool using boron steels. Aiming at boosting the advantages of this technology, car manufacturers have started to demand structural components with different mechanical behavior areas in order to improve the impact response of the auto-motive passenger compartment: the so called tailor tempered components. The basic idea is to obtain final parts with different properties like it has been successfully done using tailored welded blanks. Although different solutions exist, one of the most common strategy is to use partially heated tooling, which influences the cooling of the sheet and consequently the local properties. At the present work, a special tooling with independent heated and cooled areas has been developed in order to evaluate the final properties achievable in the tailored tempering process. High and low conductivity alloys have been used to find the process limits and compare them to classical tool steels. Hardness values, Ultimate Tensile Stresses and microstructures are shown for different steels, tool temperatures and contact pressures. Furthermore, and in the last part of the paper, the results covering the hot spotting process are presented. Different air gap diameters have been used to evaluate the possibility to create soft spots that will enable an easier cutting of geometrically accurate holes and a more suitable and ductile joint between different components by using the spot welding technology.
Cite as:
Galdos, L., Argandoña, E., Mendiguren, J., Herrero, N., Ortubay, R., Agirretxe, X., & Martín, J. (2014). Tailor tempering and hot-spotting of press hardened boron steels. Computer Methods in Materials Science, 14(4), 236 – 244. https://doi.org/10.7494/cmms.2014.4.0495
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Keywords:
Hot Stamping, Boron Steels, Tailor tempering, Hot Spotting
Publication dates:
Received: 04.09.2014, accepted: 18.12.2014, published:
Publication type:
Original scientific paper
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