“…In this forming process, the plastic anisotropy has important effect on the formation of undulative top edge of the finally drawn cup often termed as earing. Numerous phenomenological orthotropic yield functions with constant (fixed) anisotropy parameters under associated or non-associated flow rule have been tested in this forming process (Yoon et al, 1998(Yoon et al, , 1999(Yoon et al, , 2000Cvitanić et al, 2008;Taherizadeh et al, 2010Taherizadeh et al, , 2011Park and Chung, 2012;Safaei et al, 2013;Vrh et al, 2014;and others). These extensive numerical studies clearly indicate that the predicted earing trend (location of peaks and valleys) is the mirror image of the predicted r-value trend with the respect to the transverse direction, and that the prediction of the earing profile amplitude (the maximum difference in cup heights) is correlated to the prediction of the yield stress anisotropy amplitude.…”