APPLICATION POTENTIAL OF SOME CRITERIA OF DUCTILE CRACK IN BULK FORMING PROCESSES

Ductile crack criteria are unavoidable tool for material formability analysis. Their basic task is foreseeing the location of crack occurrence and critical value of deformation level in the course of forming process. However, in order to provide successful application of certain criterion it is necessary to be familiar with material characteristics, specificities of forming processes and forming conditions. For all the above mentioned reasons this paper deals with the analysis of application potential of some widely used criteria of ductile crack in cold bulk forming processes according to representative literature resources. Results can contribute better understanding of phenomenon of material microstructure damage and adequate choice of ductile crack criterion in the analysis of formability in various processes and forming conditions.