Deep drawing processes of various special steel sheets are simulated by the rigid‐plastic finite element method. To predict the forming limit a criterion for ductile fracture is applied. From the histories of stress and strain in each element calculated by the finite element simulation, the fracture initiation site and the critical stroke are predicted by means of the ductile fracture criterion. The predictions so obtained are compared with experimental observations. The results show that the finite element analysis combined with the ductile fracture criterion is useful to predict the forming limit in a wide range of sheet steels.
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