Frédéric Barlat


Biography

Professor Frédéric Barlat is a French/American scientist in the field of plasticity, damage and metal forming. He is currently the director of A&S Center at Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. Professor Barlat's contribution in the field of plasticity, particularly his models on anisotropic plasticity of metallic materials, has been recognized worldwide.
Professor Frédéric Barlat finished his undergraduate and master's degree at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, France in 1980. He finished his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France in 1984. Immediately after finishing his PhD he started his career as a researcher associate at Alcoa Technical Center in Pittsburgh, USA. In 1986 he became an assistant professor at Grenoble Institute of Technology in France. After one year he returned to Alcoa research center as a senior engineer, where he worked for 20 years. In 2007, he joined Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea as a professor.

Constitutive Models

Professor Frédéric Barlat is highly recognized in the plasticity, damage, and metal forming communities. He has innovated and developed several brilliant constitutive models for anisotropic plasticity of metallic materials including:
- A family of Barlat's yield criteria:
- Barlat's constitutive model for non-isotropic hardening of metallic materials:
Because of his lifelong outstanding achievements in the field of plasticity, damage and metal forming, Prof. Barlat has been awarded worldwide:
Frederic Barlat is actively working on the following subjects:
The following courses are given by Frederic Barlat at the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology:
Professor Barlat has directly supervised several graduate students since he joined the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology. Here is the list of completed projects:
  1. Behavior of Dual Phase steels in Stretch Bending
  2. Bauschinger effect in simple shear for DQIF and DP steel sheets
  3. Crystal Plasticity Application to 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel
  1. Constitutive Modeling of High Strength Steel Sheets
  2. Determination and Modeling of the Forming Limit Diagram for thin Ferritic Stainless Steel Sheet
  1. Nonlinear Behavior of Steel Sheets during Unloading and Reloading
  1. Analysis of Hot Press Formed Parts with Tailored Strength
  2. Frictional Behaviors of a TRIP780 and a Mild Steel under a wide range of Contact Stresses and at various Sliding Velocity
  3. Simple shear flow behavior for Advanced High Strength Steel sheets
  1. Application of self-consistent crystal plasticity framework as a constitutive description for commercial steel sheets
  2. Finite Element Analysis in Sheet Metal Forming of Advanced High Strength Steels
  3. Simulations of Hot Press Forming with Advanced Thermo-Mechanical-Metallurgical Finite Element Modeling
  4. Advanced experiments for the AHSS
  1. Effects of Plastic Strain, Arc welding and Tempering on Fatigue Property of Automotive Hot Rolled Steels
  2. Forming of Ultra-Thin Ferritic Stainless Steel Sheets
  3. Constitutive and Friction Modeling for Robust Springback Prediction of Advanced High Strength Steel Sheets
  4. Crystal Plasticity Investigation of Ridging Mechanisms in Ferritic Stainless Steels
  5. Enhanced Formability of AHSS Using a Non-conventional Forming Approach
  6. Reverse loading parameter determination for ultrathin steel sheets
  1. Transformation Kinetics and Density Models of Q&P Steel for Potential Press-Hardening Applications
  2. Macro- and Meso-scopic Finite Element Modeling of Strain Path-Induced Plastic Anisotropy Evolution in Steel Sheet
  3. Heat Transfer Coefficient Calculations between Tool and Boron Steel Blanks for HPF
  4. Application of the Virtual Fields Method to High Strain Rate Testing
  5. Evaluation of Anisotropic Yield Function for Hole Expansion Test of DP and BH Steel Sheets
  1. Springback Prediction of AHSS Sheets in Double-stage Forming Using Advanced Constitutive Modeling
  2. Modeling of Yield Surface Evolution in Uniaxial and Biaxial Loading Conditions Using a Pre-strained Large-scale Specimen
  3. Characterization of Fracture in Medium Mn Steel
  4. Characterization of Fracture in TRIP1180
  1. Effect of Rolling Parameters on Surface Strain Variation in Hot Strip Rolling
  2. Characterization of Dynamic Hardening Behavior at Intermediate Strain Rates Using the Virtual Field Method
  3. A Crystal Plasticity Model for Describing the Anisotropic Hardening Behavior of Steel Sheets during Strain-Path Changes
  1. Finite Element Modeling for Ultrathin and Thick Steel Sheets
  2. Validation of HAH model Using Non-linear Strain Path Experiments
  3. Yield Surface Modeling by Non-linear Strain Path Experiments
  1. Identification of Dynamic Properties using Acceleration by the Virtual Fields Method
  2. Application of HAH Model in Simple Shear Cycles at Large Accumulated Strain