Several types of multiple straight convex shapes were formed on a thin aluminum sheet with a grooved die using impulsive water pressure. The maximum pressure was 160 MPa in the high-speed forming, wherein a drop hammer testing machine was used, whereas it was 100 MPa in the low-speed forming because of the limitations of the press machine. The effects of the forming speed, cross-sectional shape, and pitch of the grooves on the deformation behavior were investigated. The increase in the impulsive water pressure was found to be affected significantly by the compressibility of water. The symmetricity of the convex shape in the cross-section decreased at both ends for a smaller pitch because of the imbalance of the material flow at both peripheries of the groove. The concave surface profile of the pressure side was more rounded in the high-speed forming than that in the low-speed forming when semicircular and rectangular grooved dies were used. This may be attributed to the fact that the plastic deformation becomes more uniform owing to the positive strain rate sensitivity of the test material. In the forming with rectangular grooves, fracture occurred under the low- and high-speed conditions, wherein the maximum pressure was set to 100 MPa. However, the material did not fracture during high-speed forming with a pressure of 160 MPa, where the convex shape was higher and the material contacted the bottom of the groove. This behavior may be because the dislocation density of the material did not increase rapidly owing to the strain rate being maintained high until the material suddenly stopped deforming in the latter condition. In forming with a trapezoidal grooved die, the formed profiles were considerably similar under all conditions because the strain was considerably smaller than that with the other grooves.

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