Wear behaviour on the radius portion of a die in deep-drawing: Identification, localisation and evolution of the surface damage

An experimental study was conducted on a low-carbon steel sheet and a X160CrMoV12 steel die radius. It revealed that the die radius surface was degraded by ploughing and transfer mechanisms. The distribution of these degradations on the die radius was localised in two areas but varied in intensity depending on the exit angle between the sheet and the die radius. The die radius friction coefficient has been modelled with respect to the mechanical characteristics of the deep-drawing process-simulator. This model leads to a correlation between the friction coefficient and the degradation evolutions on the die radius.