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The incremental updated Lagrangian elasto-plastic finite element method (FEM) was employed in this study to analyse the stretch flanging of circular plates with a pre-determined smaller hole at the centre of the sheet metal. An extended r min technique was employed such that each incremental step size is determined not only by the yielding of an element Gaussian point, but also by the change in the boundary condition along the tool-sheet interface. The experimental results, using a low-carbon (BA-CQ2) sheet plate with a thickness of 1.0 mm, have been obtained and compared with the corresponding theoretical results. It was found that the flange thickness does not always decrease monotonically from the die shoulder to the flange edge. Reducing the punch diameter and increasing the flange height significantly reduced the flange thickness. Web width does not influence the thickness distribution of the flange. The tendency of flange thickness to thin decreases as punch diameter increases. The reduction of thickness at the die shoulder depends on the die shoulder radius. Simulation results of punch load of stretch flanging, the deformed geometry, and the distribution of thickness are compared with experimental data and found to satisfactorily agree.
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Huang, YM. An elasto-plastic finite element analysis of the sheet metal stretch flanging process. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 34, 641–648 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-007-0958-3
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