The objective of this work is to present the numerical simulation of the air-bending process of DC01 steel. There are plenty of works concerned with assessing the springback phenomenon in the bending process also using anisotropic material models (Hill’s model is widely used). However, very few recent publications are concerned about the fatigue life assessment of bent products. As ensuring the proper fatigue resistance of products is vital for increasing safety and widening the service intervals there is certainly a need to perform investigations in this field. In this work, the air bending simulation of anisotropic DC01 steel with the usage of Barlat’s plastic anisotropy model was presented. Together with springback analysis and the equivalent plastic strain cumulation during incremental bending. Strain cumulation is believed to be an important factor in predicting fatigue life. It was shown that the strain development rate depends on the bending process parameters, especially from the bending line orientation to the sheet rolling direction.
