Capabilities and applications of FEM code deform: the perspective of the developer

Abstract Process simulation assists the forming engineer in establishing and optimizing process variables and die design. As a result, process development effort and costs are reduced. In order for forming industry to take full advantage of process simulation, simulation tools should be capable of predicting actual physical phenomena accurately, and offer streamlined simulation procedures so that the required engineering effort in using it should be acceptable. In this paper, capabilities of the FEM code deform are presented. deform is a two-dimensional FEM program capable of simulating a wide class of forming processes with various material models. The automatic mesh generation and remeshing capability of the deform system is proved to be an essential feature of a streamlined simulation procedure for industrial applications. Example solutions are also presented to demonstrate the capabilities of the deform system.

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