Reliability analysis of the metal forming process

In this paper, we propose a reliability-mechanical study combination for treating the metal forming process. This combination is based on the augmented Lagrangian method for solving the deterministic case and the response surface method. Our goal is the computation of the failure probability of the frictionless contact problem. Normally, contact problems in mechanics are particularly complex and have to be solved numerically. There are several numerical techniques available for computing the solution. However, some design parameters are uncertain and the deterministic solutions could be unacceptable. Thus, a mechanical contact study is an important subject for reliability analysis: the augmented Lagrangian method coupled with the first order reliability method, and we use the Monte Carlo method to obtain the founding results. The metal forming process is treated numerically to validate the new approach.

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