Cover:Results form finite element simulation of the stretching of the sheet metal exhaust bracket.Printed by: LiU-Tryck, Linköping, Sweden, 2014 ISBN 978-91-7519-389-2 ISSN 0345-7524 Distributed by: Linköping University Department of Management and Engineering 581 83 Linköping, Sweden c 2014 Oscar Björklund This document was prepared with L A T E X, March 7, 2014 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or be transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the author.
PrefaceThe work presented in this thesis has been carried out at the Division of Solid Mechanics at Linköping University with financial support from the VINNOVA PFF project "Fail" and the SFS ProViking project "Super Light Steel Structures". Industrial partners DYNAmore Nordic, Outokumpu Stainless, Saab Automobile, Scania CV, SSAB, Swerea IVF and Volvo Car Corporation are gratefully acknowledged for their support.
AbstractDevelopments in computer-aided engineering and the rapid growth of computational power have made simulation-driven process and product development efficient and useful since it enables detailed evaluation of product designs and their manufacturing processes. In the context of a sheet metal component, it is vital to predict possible failure both during its forming process and its subsequent usage. Accurate numerical models are needed in order to obtain trustworthy simulation results. Furthermore, the increasing demands imposed on improved weightto-performance ratio for many products endorse the use of high-strength steels. These steels often show anisotropic behaviour and more complex hardening and fracturing compared to conventional steels. Consequently, demand for research on material and failure models suitable for these steels has increased.In this work, the mechanical and fracture behaviour of two high-strength steels, Docol 600DP and Docol 1200M, have been studied under various deformation processes. Experimental results have been used both for material characterisation and for calibration of fracture criteria. One major requirement as concerns the fracture criteria studied is that they should be simple to apply in industrial applications, i.e. it should be possible to easily calibrate the fracture criteria in simple mechanical experiments and they should be efficient and accurate. Consequently, un-coupled phenomenological damage models have been the main focus throughout this work.Detailed finite element models including accurate constitutive laws have be used to predict and capture material instabilities. Most of the fracture criteria studied are modifications of the plastic work to fracture. Ductile tensile and ductile shear types of fracture are of particular interest in sheet metal applications. For these fractures the modification of the plastic work relates to void coalescence and void collapse, respectively. Anisotropy in fracture behaviour can be captured by the introduction of a material ...