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Prediction of damage in small curvature bending processes of high strength steels using continuum damage mechanics model in 3D simulation

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Sheet metal bending of modern lightweight materials like high-strength low-alloyed steels (HSLA) is one major challenge in metal forming, because conventional methods of predicting failure in numerical simulation, like the forming limit diagram (FLD), can generally not be applied to bending processes. Furthermore, the damage and failure behaviour of HSLA steels are changing as the fracture mechanisms are mainly depending on the microstructure, which is very fine-grained in HSLA steels composed with different alloying elements compared to established mild steels. Especially for high gradients of strain and stress over the sheet thickness, as they occur in small curvature bending processes, other damage models than the FLD have to be utilised. Within this paper a finite element (FE) 3D model of small curvature bending processes is created. The model includes continuum damage mechanics model in order to predict and study occurring failure by means of ductile coherence loss of the material and crack formation with respect to influencing process parameters. Damage parameters are determined by inverse numerical identification method. The FE-model is strain based validated considering the deformation field at the outer bending edge of the specimen by using an optical strain measurement system. The Lemaitre based damage model is calibrated against the experimental results within metallographic analysis adapting the identified damage parameters to the bending process und thus adjusting the crack occurrence in experiment and simulation. Using this model the bendability of common HSLA steel, used for structural components, is evaluated with respect to occurring damage and failure by numerical analysis.

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The authors would like to thank the Bavarian Research Foundation for their financial support of the research project BFS 903-09.

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    Ioannis Tsoupis, Sven Hildering & Marion Merklein

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Tsoupis, I., Hildering, S. & Merklein, M. Prediction of damage in small curvature bending processes of high strength steels using continuum damage mechanics model in 3D simulation. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 7, 239–249 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-012-0441-3

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