Numerical prediction of ductile failure in the blanking process by means of uncoupled and coupled phenomenological damage models

Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Liège, 13A Allée de la découverte, 4000 Liège, Belgium

^a Corresponding author: ccanales@ulg.ac.be

Abstract

Fracture prediction in blanking has gained great attention due to increasing requirements of high-quality products. In this work, the predictive capabilities of different uncoupled and coupled damage models, recently implemented in a fully implicit homemade FE code, for blanking process are compared. Some advanced models considered here include damage sensitivity to both triaxiality and Lode angle in their formulation. The material characterization is based on the history of internal variables during loading, where different mechanical tests are considered. Finally, numerical and experimental results are compared for a wide range of different geometries of blanking.