%0 Journal Article %T Electromagnetic field simulation and crack analysis of electromagnetic forming of Magnesium alloy tube %A Wang %A Z. F. %A Piao %A F. X. %A Wang %A Z. Y. %A Cui %A J. Z. %A Ma %A M. X. %J Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1678-58782011000100006 %X the az31 magnesium alloy tube was used for electromagnetic forming experiment of three kinds of input voltages. the stress-strain state of tube forming was analyzed. it was shown that the cause of oblique crack of tube was ¦Òr of axial inhomogeneous distribution and ¦Òz, and the cause of longitudinal crack was ¦Òr and ¦Ò¨¨ of inhomogeneous distribution in circumferential direction. moreover, the electromagnetic field and force field during electromagnetic forming was simulated by ansys software. the experiment proved the simulation result. %K magnesium alloy tube %K electromagnetic forming %K numerical simulation %K crack. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1678-58782011000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en