Material Identification Using a Bi-Axial Test Machine

This paper shows the identification of material parameters for a DC06 IF steel sheet of 0.8 mm by mechanical tests. The experimental equipment used consists of a tensile test machine, a bi-axial test machine able to perform plane-strain and simple shear tests separately or simultaneously and an optical strain gauge. Tensile, plane-strain and simple shear tests were performed at 0°, 45° and 90° from the sheet rolling direction in order to identify Hill 1948 and Hosford 1979 yield criteria. Two identification methods are used: one based on strain measurements (anistropy coefficients) and the other one based on stress measurements (plastic contours). The results confirm that mechanical tests applying other stress-states than tensile are required to obtain accurate material parameters identification.