Two-Scale Thermomechanical Simulation of Hot Stamping

The book delves into the hot stamping process, emphasizing its ability to create components with an excellent strength-to-weight ratio through polymorphic steel behavior. It introduces a nonlinear two-scale thermomechanical model for simulating this process within the FE tool ABAQUS. Key aspects include the consideration of phase transformation and transformation-induced plasticity effects. The results of the simulations, particularly concerning final shapes and residual stresses, are rigorously compared with experimental data to validate the model's effectiveness.