Full‐field optical measurements like digital image correlation or the grid method have
brought a paradigm shift in the experimental mechanics community. While inverse …

Numerical simulations have become essential in engineering and manufacturing processes
involving plasticity. The reliability and effectiveness of the simulations depend strongly on …

A large number of conventional mechanical tests are required to calibrate advanced
anisotropic yield functions. A well-designed non-conventional mechanical test generating …

Abstract The Virtual Fields Method (VFM) is a well established inverse technique used to
identify the constitutive parameters of material models using heterogeneous full-field strain …

Alternative processes to conventional machining are increasing in various fields. Both
surface integrity and functional characteristics related to surface state, such as tensile …

Sheet metal forming processes are of upmost importance in many industrial applications.
Their virtualization has been addressed by numerical simulation software. However, realistic …

The mechanical characterization of anisotropic thin walled-tubes along hoop direction is not
a trivial task. It is necessary to develop experimental techniques, numerical methods and …

Nowadays, the development and design of new parts require an increasing knowledge of
the materials' behaviour. Additionally, for the current sophisticated numerical modeling tools …

Many anisotropic phenomenological yield functions have been proposed in the literature in
which their predictive capabilities strongly depend on the experimental calibration data as …

In this work, a new methodology for the material characterization of locally heat treated
blanks is proposed. Laser treatments on the central part of dog-bone specimens, extracted …