Bulging of Isotropic Materials

Abstract

There is a large body of literature on both the techniques for bulge testing and experimental results for various metallic materials (see the book of Banabic [1]). Generally, the experimental data for isotropic materials are interpreted using the von Mises yield criterion [2]. In this paper, we investigate the role played by the third invariant of the stress deviator, on the response under bulging of isotropic materials that have the same mechanical response in tension and compression. To this end, we use the yield criterion developed by Cazacu [3] and our implementation of this model in the F.E. code Abaqus [4]. For isotropic materials, this yield criterion involves a unique parameter, denoted ; in the case when it reduces to the von Mises yield criterion while for it involves dependence on . The results of F.E. simulations of bulge tests for isotropic materials characterized by various values of the parameterput into evidence new aspects concerning the stress states experienced by the respective materials under bulging.