Thank you everyone for your reply. There is a complete stress-strain curve of the materials for us. It is linear-elastic for the first part, followed by plastic region. What I am trying to ask is, is it right for me to say that my forged workpiece's von mises stress OR max principal stress...
Hello all, I have been reading up on the difference between max principal stress and von mises stress. Those principles are easy to understand but I can't seems to make sense of it for a forged material.
I am using DEFORM to simulate the cold forging of a workpiece and the result shows that...
