What is strain hardening?

- July 31, 2020 at 4:04 pm
  
  prajput
  Ansys Employee
  
  What is strain hardening?
- July 31, 2020 at 4:05 pm
  
  Samir Kadam
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hardening is a process to increase material's hardness, in other words, resistance to plastic deformation.
- July 31, 2020 at 4:05 pm
  
  Ashish Khemka
  Forum Moderator
  
  Hello @skadam
  Strain hardening refers to the resistance of a metal to further plastic deformation. The tendency of a metal to strain harden is indicated by tangent moduli of the plastic curve.
- July 31, 2020 at 4:06 pm
  
  Samir Kadam
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi all! To add to the above answers, in Ansys, we can have bilinear/multilinear isotropic hardening and bilinear/multilinear kinematic hardening.
- July 31, 2020 at 4:06 pm
  
  prajput
  Ansys Employee
  
  Thank you!