Investigation into wall wrinkling in deep drawing process of conical cups

Wrinkling phenomenon has been one of the major limiting failure modes in sheet metal forming processes. Wrinkling phenomenon in sidewall area of the cup formed in the conical cup test was considered both experimentally and numerically. A new deflection function is developed in this research and the effects of material anisotropy on the onset of wrinkling are studied using Hosford and Hill-1948 yield criteria under isotropy, normal anisotropy and planar anisotropy conditions. It was observed that application of Hosford yield criterion resulted in better prediction of wrinkling onset. It was also found that as the effective stress increases, consistency between predicted results and experimental data at the onset of wrinkling improves. Also, a good agreement between experimental data and predictions using proposed deflection function is obtained.