Analysis of rectangular cup drawing considering anisotropic hardening and cyclic effect for orthogonal anisotropic materials

An anisotropic plasticity model is developed based on the non-associated flow rule with anisotropic hardening. The model combines non-quadratic yield function and quadratic plastic potential function for orthogonal anisotropic sheet metals. The model is also expanded to properly reproduce the cyclic effect during forming processes. The simple formulations can contribute to cost saving in the parameter acquisition process and implementation. The developed model was implemented into the finite element code ABAQUS as a user material subroutine under a general three-dimensional condition. To evaluate the capability of the plasticity model, different loading conditions and prediction of the yield surface were considered. A multi-step rectangular cup drawing process with the AA5182-O and DP600 sheets including draw/re-draw effects was applied to evaluate the performance of capturing complex plastic behavior by finite element simulation. The results show that the anisotropic plasticity model is capable of describing the anisotropic behaviors including anisotropic hardening and cyclic hardening with high accuracy and efficiency.

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An anisotropic plasticity model based on the non-associated flow rule with anisotropic hardening was developed. It accurately describes the plastic behavior of orthogonal anisotropic sheet metals and properly reproduces the cyclic effect during forming processes. The model has high accuracy and efficiency in capturing anisotropic behaviors including anisotropic hardening and cyclic hardening.