Press formed components are in huge demand now a days. Especially high strength steels are widely acceptable by different industries because of their high weight to strength ratio. Due to Poor formability, it is quite difficult to work with high strength steels. Dimensional inaccuracy is main concern with the metals having poor formability which leads to springback. So for better control over dimensions especially in assembled component springback must be predicted in advance. Accurate Springback prediction is a very crucial for commercial aspect. Many of process parameter directly or indirectly influences the springback during forming process of high strength process. Bauschinger effect is one of parameter which play important role during forming process. Many researchers already develop springback prediction model but most of them avoid consideration of Bauschinger effect due to complexity involved in Bauschinger effect. The springback results obtained from such model are far away when we consider them with experimental results. So it is very crucial to consider Bauschinger effect during springback prediction which gives near by results with experimental results. This paper deals with theories of Bauschinger effect and its impact on springback prediction modelling. Keywords: Bauschinger effect, Springback, Bending, formability, High strength steel
I. INTRODUCTIONHigh strength steel covered majority share in sheet metal industries in last few years due to its good strength to weight ratio. High strength and advance high strength steel are in high demand especially in automotive and aerospace industries. While dealing with sheet metal process, springback is the one of the most critical issue. High strength steel offers a higher rate of springback because springback rate is increase with material strength. Springback is a shape change of final geometry after removal of load. It is an elasticity driven incident which is mostly manages by the stress state obtained at the end of a deformation. Depending on the product geometry and deformation regime, there are several types of springback in sheet metal forming: bending, membrane, twisting and combined bending and membrane [1]. Springback is a phenomenon to describe the elastic recovery of sheet metal after a forming operation in which the strip unbends itself after forming. Sheet metals are prone to some amount of springback due to elastic deformation. Springback prediction is a major issue for the sheet metal manufacture to evaluate the desired shape of a product. Springback refers to the shape discrepancy between the fully loaded and unloaded configurations.[2] Accurate prediction and controlling of spring back is essential in the design of tools for sheet metal forming. High strength steel sheets have played a key role in weight reduction for environmental considerations and improved crashworthiness in the automotive industry in recent years. But at the same time sheet metal forming of high strength steel is itself a critical issue since such high stren...