Effect of in-plane biaxial strain paths on the variation of normal anisotropy and texture of steel sheet

Normal anisotropy is crucial for deep drawability of sheet metal. Texture of the sheet determines the normal anisotropy. It is often observed that the forming conditions remaining unchanged, sheets having similar tensile properties do not always show similar drawability in press working. It was therefore thought that strain and strain path dependent change in the normal anisotropy of two sheets could hold the key to this behaviour. Hence studies...