Magnesium wrought alloys are outstanding lightweight materials due to their low densityand high specific strength. The low formability of magnesium wrought alloy AZ31 at roomtemperature is increased by electromagnetic forming in comparison to quasi-staticforming. For a detailed study of electro-magnetic process a coupled FE simulation must beperformed. In this paper the process design for electromagnetic forming of magnesiumwrought alloy AZ1 using FE simulation is presented.The complexity of an electromagnetic forming process requires the illustration ofmagnetic, thermal and structural dynamic domains. Moreover, it is also necessary toillustrate the electromagnetic resonant circuit RLC. Short processing time and the strongdependence of the physical domains to each other requires a coupled FE simulation.The illustration of resonant circuit and the resulting formation of magnetic field iscarried out in two-dimensional rotationally symmetric model in ANSYS MAPDL using asuitable material model. As a result time-dependent and location-dependent eddy currentsand Lorentz forces are estimated.Subsequently, the transmission of the estimated Lorentz forces and joule heatgeneration rates to ANSYS LS-DYNA is done. Due to the rotational symmetry of 2D ANSYSMAPDL model a transformation of the loads on 3D structures can be realized. Theformation of an optimum deformation of a work piece in dependence of a defined die hasbeen carried out. Here, the influence of different coil designs, die materials and geometriesand RLC parameters was investigated.
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