Anisotropic effects in the compression beading of aluminum thin-walled tubes with rubber

The purpose of this paper is to study numerically the “elastomer-assisted compression beading” (EACB process). It consists of conventional compressing beading after a local bulging carried out by an elastomer material. A Finite Element Method (FEM) is introduced to predict where and when the damage can occur in the tube and to study the effects of anisotropy on the occurrence of failure by cracking in regions where damage is accumulated. An anisotropic elasto-plastic constitutive model with mixed non-linear isotropic/kinematic hardening fully coupled with Lemaitre's ductile damage is implemented in ABAQUS/Explicit software via VUMAT subroutine. The influence of anisotropy on the damage evolution is investigated in this study and results are compared with isotropic model.