Analysis of Instability Plastic Shaping by Hydroforming Thin Sheets at Different Temperatures

Abstract:

Coupled constitutive equations, formulated in the framework of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes accounting for isotropic hardening as well as the isotropic ductile damage are used to simulate numerically, by the Finite Element Analysis, 3D metal hydroforming processes. The experimental study is dedicated to the identification of stress-strain flow and damage parameters by using the Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm optimization from the global measure of displacement and force. Applications are made to the simulation of thin sheet hydroforming using different at different temperature to show the efficiency of the proposed methodology and to localize plastic instability, thinning of sheet and damage initiation under complex forming conditions.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 698)
• Pages: 29-37
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.698.29
• Online since: May 2013
• Authors: Faouzi Slimani, Abel Cherouat, A. Ayadi, Mohammed Ali Rezgui, Ali Zghal
• Keywords: Anisotropic Hardening, Finite Element Method (FEM), Finite Thermo-Elastoplasticity, Hydroforming Process, Inverse Identification

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