Research Progress of Regulatory Factors for Tillering and Earring of Large-spike and Multispike Cultivars of Winter Wheat

To research the regulation factors and regulating mechanism for tillering and earring of large-spike and multi-spike cultivars of winter wheat,and achieve yield improvement,this article summarized the research progress of the influence of genetic factors,group environment factors and endogenous hormones on tillering and earring of different spike cultivars of winter wheat,and pointed out that the future research should focus on the relationship between various factors and influencing mechanism of regulation factors of different tillers.According to studying the relationship among content of hormone,hormones balance,gene expression and regulation,and wheat tillering,this article will provide theoretical basis and technical support for high-yield cultivation of winter wheat.

A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF THE FLANGE EARRINGS OF STRONG ANISOTROPIC SHEET METALS IN DEEP-DRAWING PROCESSES

Flange earrings of strong anisotropic sheet metals in deep-drawing process are numerically analyzed by the elastic-plastic large deformation finite element formulation based on a discrete Kirchhoff triangle plate shell element model. A Barlat-Lian anisotropic yield function and a quasi-flow corner theory are used in the present formulation. The numerical results are compared with the experimental ones of cylindrical cup drawing process. The focus of the present researches is on the numerical analysis and the constraining scheme of the flange earring of circular sheets with strong anisotropy in square cup drawing process.

Influence of blank holder type on drawability of 5182-O aluminum sheet at room temperature

To study the influence of blank holder type on the drawability of 5182-O aluminum sheet at room temperature, the flat blank holder and curved blank holder were employed during the deep drawing process. The microstructures were characterized by optical microscopy （OM）. The results reveal that the limiting drawing ratio （LDR） of 5182-O aluminum alloy sheet is 1.7 using the flat blank holder. The drawn cup have severe earring. Compared with using flat blank holder, the LDR of 5182-O aluminum alloy sheet is enhanced to 2.0 using curved blank holder. In addition, the earring ratio also reduces and flange wrinkling is prevented when the curved blank holder is used. These are due to a more uniform sheet flow in different directions with curved blank holder.

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC HOMOGENIZATION FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AND ITS APPLICATION ON SIMULATION OF EVOLUTION OF PLASTIC DEFORMATION INDUCED TEXTURE

A crystallographic homogenization method is proposed and implemented to predict the evolution of plastic deformation induced texture and plastic anisotropy （earring） in the stamping of polycrystalline sheet metals. The microscopic inhomogeneity of crystal aggregate has been taken into account with the microstructure made up of a representative aggregate of single crystal grains. Multi-scale analysis is performed by coupling the microscopic crystal plasticity with the macroscopic continuum response through the present homogenization procedure. The macroscopic stress is defined as the volume average of the corresponding microscopic crystal aggregations, which simultaneously satisfies the equation of motion in both micro- and macro-states. The proposed numerical implementation is based on a finite element discretization of the macrocontinuum, which is locally coupled at each Gaussian point with a finite element discretization of the attached micro-structure. The solution strategy for the macro-continuum and the pointwiseattached micro-structure is implemented by the simultaneous employment of dynamic explicit FE formulation. The rate-dependent crystal plasticity model is used for the constitutive description of the constituent single crystal grains. It has been confirmed that Taylor＇s constant strain homogenization assumption yields an undue concentration of the preferred crystal orientation compared with the present homogenization in the prediction of texture evolution, with the latter having relaxed the constraints on the crystal grains. Two kinds of numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the capability of the developed code： 1） The texture evolution of three representative deformation modes, and 2） Plastic anisotropy （earring） prediction in the hemispherical cup deep drawing process of aluminum alloy A5052 with initial texture. By comparison of simulation results with those obtained employing direct crystal plasticity calculation adopting Taylor assumption, conclusions are drawn that the proposed dynamic explicit crystallographic homogenization FEM is able to more accurately predict the plastic deformation induced texture evolution and plastic anisotropy in the deep drawing process.

Formability improvement and blank shape definition for deep drawing of cylindrical cup with complex curve profile from SPCC sheets using FEM

In the current work, to predict and improve the formability of deep drawing process for steel plate cold rolled commercial grade （SPCC） sheets, three parameters including the blanking force, the die and punch comer radius were considered. The experimental plan according to Taguchi＇s orthogonal array was coupled with the finite element method （FEM） simulations. Firstly, the data from the test of stress-strain and forming limit curves were used as input into ABAQUS/Explicit finite element code to predict the failure occurrence of deep drawing process. The three parameters were then validated to establish their effects on the press formability. The optimum case found via simulation was finally confirmed through an experiment. In order to obtain the complex curve profile of cup shape after deep drawing, the anisotropic behavior of earring phenomenon was modeled and implemented into FEM. After such phenomenon was correctly predicted, an error metric compared with design curve was then measured.