Strain Hardening Analysis Coupled to Remeshing Procedure Application to Sheet Hydroforming Processes

Abstract

In this study, we present an experimental/numerical methodology which aims to improve 3D thin sheet hydroforming considering coupled constitutive equations formulated in the framework of of irreversible processes accounting for isotropic hardening as well as isotropic ductile damage. The experimental study is dedicated to the identification of stress-strain flow from the global measure of pole displacement, thickness evolution and internal pressure expansion. Or during the hydroforming processes severe mesh distortion of element occur after a few incremental steps. Hence an automatic mesh generation with remeshing capabilities is essential to carry out the FEA. The proposed technique based on geometrical criteria includes adaptive refinement and coarsening procedure is integrated in a computational environment.