Comparative investigation into the dynamic explicit and the static implicit method for springback of sheet metal stamping

Two hinds of time integration methods; the dynamic explicit method and the static implicit method, have been compared especially with emphasis on the shell formulations and the stress integration methods. Two methods have bee n applied to the benchmark problem named the S-rail stamping process, provi ded by NUMISHEET'96 committee, in order to compare their numerical results with each other and with the average values of the experiments as well. Bas ed on the comparisons, it is shown that both time integration methods can b e successfully applied to industrial sheet metal stamping simulations In de tail, the static implicit method is advantageous over the dynamic explicit method in terms of accuracy, while the latter is known to be more efficient than the former in terms of computation efficiency.