vForm-xSteels Internal Benchmark Experimental Dataset (KU Leuven)

The vForm-xSteels benchmark aims to evaluate the current state-of-the-art practices of using heterogeneous specimens and DIC techniques to characterise the hardening and anisotropy behaviour of metals. This is done to produce well-calibrated material constitutive models for precise manufacturing simulation design purposes. Therefore, both the experimental and numerical stages required for the behavior characterization are analysed and the current practices in the framework of MT2.0 are assessed. All commercial and university-designed tools and equipment can be used.

The available dataset is from the experimental tests conducted for the vForm-xSteels benchmark. A known and simple specimen geometry (the heterogeneous dog-bone specimen) was used in a uniaxial tensile test at different material orientations (0, 45, and 90 degrees from the rolling directions). 

This project has received funding from the Research Fund for Coal and Steel under grant agreement No 888153.