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In recent years the process of shear rolling has seen considerable study, particularly for heavily textured materials such as magnesium. The goal of this work has been to produce sheet with greater formability for industries such as automotive and aerospace. To date, almost all work on asymmetric rolling has been carried out on small strips that are not large enough to produce parts. The current work will discuss scaling-up of the shear rolling process to generate wider sheet. A mill at the Magnesium Elektron North America plant was modified to allow shear rolling at a ratio of 1:1.35 on sheets up to 36” wide. AZ31B and ZEK100 sheets of size 36”x72” were shear rolled and demonstration automotive parts have been formed by Superform USA.
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Randman, D. et al. (2012). Production of wide shear-rolled magnesium sheet for part forming. In: Mathaudhu, S.N., Sillekens, W.H., Neelameggham, N.R., Hort, N. (eds) Magnesium Technology 2012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48203-3_5
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