Analysis of the hydromechanical deep drawing of cylindrical cups

The hydromechanical deep drawing process of aluminum cups and mild steel cups is analyzed experimentally and numerically. The effects of the process parameters on the final product quality are discussed. A working zone with a suitable maximum chamber pressure is obtained from the experimental results. The explicit finite element method is used with Hill’s transversely anisotropic material model for the numerical analysis. The numerical results are compared with those obtained in the experiments, process defects of local thinning are predicted and the thickness variations are discussed.