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Recently, the applications of magnesium alloy to automobile and electric parts have been increased because of its high specific strength, excellent machinability, high electrical and thermal conductivity. The efforts of automobile industry to reduce fuel consumption by using lightweight structural materials have accelerated the deep drawing technology of magnesium alloy sheet. In the present study, the basic study to fabricate an automotive compressor case have been carried out. In order to apply ductile fracture criterion to predict the forming failure, critical damage values were determined from uniaxial tensile tests and FE simulations, and then they were expressed as the function of strain rate and temperature. The proposed methodology was applied to design the deep drawing process for fabrication of magnesium automotive compressor case without any defect.

In this study, numerical simulations of electromagnetic forming (EmF) for automotive sheet metals with flat spiral coil were performed in order to analyze electromagnetic, mechanical behaviors in EmF process. Two automotive sheets which are 5J32 aluminum alloy sheet and DP780 high strength steel sheet having thickness of 1.0mm were utilized. Numerical simulations were conducted with the commercial software LS-Dyna, which is able to fully couple with electromagnetic and mechanical as well as thermal natures in three dimensional spaces. From numerical analysis, electromagnetic quantities such as Lorentz force and mechanical quantities such as deformed shape of sheet metals were examined. At low charge voltage, the simulations of the deformed shape for two workpiece blanks have a good agreement with the experiments.

Recently, the application of magnesium alloy to automobile and electric parts have been increased because of its high specific strength, excellent machinability, high electrical and thermal conductivity. The efforts of automobile industry to reduce fuel consumption by using lightweight structural materials have accelerated the deep drawing technology of magnesium alloy sheet. In the present study, the basic study to fabricate an automotive compressor case have been carried out. Critical damage values for a ductile fracture criterion were determined from uniaxial tensile tests and FE simulations, and then they were expressed as the function of strain rate and temperature. The proposed methodology was applied to design the deep drawing process for fabrication of Mg alloy automotive compressor case without any defect.