A remeshing procedure for numerical simulation of forming processes in three dimensions

Abstract

This article presents a remeshing procedure of thin sheets for numerical simulation of metal forming process in three dimensions. During simulation of metal forming processes, where large plastic deformations are possible, severe mesh distortion occur after a few incremental steps. Hence an automatic mesh generation with remeshing capabilities is essential to carry out the finite element analysis. This paper gives the necessary steps to remesh a structure in finite element simulation of forming processes. The proposed remeshing technique based on geometrical criteria includes adaptive refinement and coarsening procedures. It has been implemented with triangular and quadrilateral elements. The proposed method has been integrated in a computational environment using the ABAQUS solver. Numerical examples show the efficiency of the proposed approach. © 2006 Springer.