Simulation of springback in cyclic wipe-bending

This paper proposes a bending method to measure the robustness of advanced material constitutive models, which are developed aiming to precisely express material responses including the Bauschinger effect, permanent softening, etc. Such constitutive models, in general, require multiple sophisticated material tests, e.g. cyclic uniaxial tension-compression, followed by appropriate numerical optimizations to identify corresponding material model parameters. These tests, for example, intrinsically require anti-buckling measures for specimens that can lead to redundant frictional forces and biaxial effects. Besides, the strategy for the optimization of material parameters or the selection of elastic modulus model is also an important point to influence the final performances. In an effort to provide more robust reliability for springback simulation results, a wipe-bending tool enabling cyclic load reversals has been developed as an intermediate validator positioned between the role of the cyclic uniaxial tension-compression and that of the U-drawbending. Predicted springback results employing the Yoshida-Uemori model have shown that this approach can be considered as an effective way to confirm both the reliability of material model parameters and the capability of a selected constitutive model in a part development or tooling stage.