Thanks are due to Professors T. Wierzbicki and T. Eagar for valuable discussions. Mr. Simon Bellemare from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT is thanked for his help in performing the three-point-bending tests. Financial support by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) is gratefully acknowledged.
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Development of Formable All-Metal Sandwich Sheets for Automotive Applications†
Article first published online: 21 APR 2005
DOI: 10.1002/adem.200400216
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Mohr, D. and Straza, G. (2005), Development of Formable All-Metal Sandwich Sheets for Automotive Applications. Adv. Eng. Mater., 7: 243–246. doi: 10.1002/adem.200400216
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 21 APR 2005
- Article first published online: 21 APR 2005
- Manuscript Accepted: 10 JAN 2005
- Manuscript Received: 14 DEC 2004
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Keywords:
- Aluminum;
- Automotive;
- Sandwich structures
This paper describes the development of thin all-metal sandwich sheets. Sandwich sheets are used in various engineering applications, but the lack of formability and weldability has prevented their wide spread use in the automotive industry. The failure modes of state-of-the-art sandwich sheets in forming operations have been analyzed in detail. Based on theoretical analysis, a formable prototype sandwich sheets has been designed. A draw bending experiment has been performed to demonstrate the formability of this prototype sheet.