Simulation of sheet metal forming incorporating EBSD data

In this work, a ferritic stainless steel (DC04) is investigated numerically on the micro and the macro scale. Single crystal orientations extracted from 2D electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data are reduced by using two methodically different methods. Based on these reduced data sets, a two-scale Taylor type model is applied at the integration points of the finite elements to simulate a deep drawing process. The earing profiles of the simulated cups are compared to the experimental data. In addition, the influence of the variation of the sheet holder force on the earing profile of the drawn cup for different friction coefficients is discussed. It is found that incorporating experimental microstructural information in the two-scale simulations, realistic earing profiles are obtained. With regard to efficient computation, a coarse FE model is used, resulting in a larger average cup height than the experimental slope. Nevertheless, reducing the friction coefficient in the model, the slope of the cup height agrees very well with the experiments which is expected to be obtainable for a finer FE mesh and the experimental friction coefficient as well. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.