Hydroforming has been used widely across many industrial fields. Large applied pressure during hydroforming makes it necessary to consider the influence of normal stress in the thickness direction, while in FE simulation, the use of traditional shell element based upon plane-stress assumption is not appropriate in such cases. Here, the traditional shell element is modified by changing the constitutive relation which took into account the normal stress in the thickness direction, and the modified shell element formula is combined with Yld91 yield function to simulate the forming process of Aluminium alloy. Then the element formulation and material model is implemented into the FE code Ls-Dyna by means of USER interface. Two examples are carried out and good correlations are obtained when compared to the traditional shell element and solid element.
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