Experimental Study of Explosive Forming of Circular Steel Plates

The aim of this research was to measure and study the deformation of circular steel plates (St37) in explosive forming operation for increasing the strength of circular shutters in manufacturing processes. Thus, some tests on circular steel plates (St37) were performed and the maximum deformation and it's profiles produced by exploding of different masses of C-4 in various distances, were measured. The experimental results have been compared with the results calculated by our theoretical methods. The Rajendran formula was found the best option among the existing theoretical methods for calculating maximum displacement of the material in deformation process. Finally, it was found that the percentage of error between experimental and theoretical results was negligible.