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The purpose of this article is to develop an inverse method for adjusting the material parameters for single point incremental forming (SPIF). The main idea consists in FEM simulations of simple tests involving the SPIF specificities (the “line test”) performed on the machine used for the process itself. This approach decreases the equipment cost. It has the advantage that the material parameters are fitted for heterogeneous stress and strain fields close to the ones occurring during the actual process. A first set of material parameters, adjusted for the aluminum alloy AA3103 with classical tests (tensile and cyclic shear tests), is compared with parameters adjusted by the line test. It is shown that the chosen tests and the strain state level have an important impact on the adjusted material data and on the accuracy of the tool force prediction reached during the SPIF process.
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Bouffioux, C., Eyckens, P., Henrard, C. et al. Identification of material parameters to predict Single Point Incremental Forming forces. Int J Mater Form 1 (Suppl 1), 1147–1150 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12289-008-0183-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12289-008-0183-0