Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Sheet Metal Behavior under Cyclic Tension-Compression Loading

Measurement of hardening under reversed uniaxial loading is because of its simplicity very effective mechanical test to achieve several important features of material behavior. In this paper is described special fixture which serves as a prevention of the sheet buckling during the cyclic tension-compression test. Result of the cyclic tension-compression test can consider several important features of the material behavior, which are necessary to be defined in the numerical simulation process. Experimental part of this paper consists of comparison results of strain path obtained from numerical simulation and real experiment. While in numerical simulation process was used material model describing isotropic hardening, real material behaved differently. Difference between strain paths also causes differences between results of springback values obtained in numerical simulation. New material models which include Bauschinger effect whether workhardening stagnation can diminish differences between results of an experiment and a numerical simulation and thus may also improve accuracy of the numerical simulation.