Abstract:
Material properties of sheet metal are important for accuracy of Finite Element
Method (FEM) in sheet metal forming process.Ten sile test is general test to provide
sheet metal properties. However, tensile test is given data of relationship between
effective stress and strain (flow stress) at 0.3 of strain that may not enough to be the
input of FEM simulation with sheet hydroforming process. The Hydraulic Bulge Test
(HBT) is the test that provides flow stress at 0.7 of strain. Therefore, this research is
aimed to investigate the data of flow stress from both tests through FEM simulation of
parabolic part by comparison with the experiment results. To determine how accuracy of
material properties obtained from tensile tests and HBT, the simulations are divided into
4 cases in each test following theses 1) defining with graph of flow stress directly
2) defining with graph of flow stress by extension strain to 1 and increasing 10% of
ultimate stress linearly 3) defining with graph of flow stress by extension strain to 1 and
stress at the end equal as ultimate stress 4) defining with power law. By comparison the
results with the minimum thickness, axial lengths along direction of rolling in 0, 45,
90 the wrinkles and crack. The simulations of flow stress curve from HBT with fitted in
power law are accurate when compared with the experimental results.