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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2018
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Yinong Shen, Canton, MI (US);
Feng Ren, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Yuan Gan, Livonia, MI (US);
S. George Luckey, Jr., Dearborn, MI (US);
Evangelos Liasi, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of evaluating a sheet metal stamping simulation is provided. The method may include defining elements of a finite-element mesh representing a stamped panel, operating on the elements to simulate deformation of the panel during stamping to generate, for each of the elements, incremental differential major and minor plastic strain values, applying a weighting factor to temporally adjacent pairs of the values to generate smoothed values, deriving, from the smoothed values and for each of the elements, a plurality of plastic strain incremental ratios representing plastic flow direction of the elements during the deformation, and altering colors of a map based on the ratios to represent changes in severity of plastic deformation of the stamped panel.