Metal forming is an economical method to produce sheet metals e. g. for the automotive industry. One important feature of forming metals is its spring back behavior, which means that the workpiece tends to relax the residual stresses from the plastic deformation stage by partly reversing its acquired shape. The finite element analysis of sheet metal forming processes is highly developed and frequently applied in deep drawing computations. By computing the elastic spring back, undesired effects can be eliminated by compensation methods. Numerical examples have shown that the computation of elastic spring back based on explicit finite element codes may yield unreliable results and the more reliable analysis with implicit codes is highly demanding in terms of computer resources. Moreover, it is questionable if the assumptions of the underlying shell-theory are fulfilled in the whole computational domain. To overcome these problems a new approach which allows to compute efficient and reliable approximations of the elastic spring back is presented in this thesis. It is based on a strictly three-dimensional high order solid finite element formulation for curved thin-walled structures. A hexahedral element is applied, allowing for an anisotropic Ansatz of the displacement field, where the polynomial degree of each separate component can be chosen individually and may also be varied in the three local directions of the element. The model error, inherent in each shell-theory turns into a discretization error, which can be readily controlled. Curved boundaries are taken care of by applying the blending function method. Several numerical examples demonstrate the efficiency and reliability of the proposed approach.
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Metal forming is an economical method to produce sheet metals e. g. for the automotive industry. One important feature of forming metals is its spring back behavior, which means that the workpiece tends to relax the residual stresses from the plastic deformation stage by partly reversing its acquired shape. The finite element analysis of sheet metal forming processes is highly developed and frequently applied in deep drawing computations. By computing the elastic spring back, undesired effects c...
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