Faghih, SasanBehravesh, Seyed BehzadJahed, Hamid2018-11-062018-11-06May-18978-1-77355-023-7http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35272http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/10315/35272The Variable Material Properties (VMP) method of elastoplastic analysis for axisymmetric problems is extended to the applications of the cold expansion problem for magnesium sheets exhibiting asymmetric hardening behavior. To investigate the effect of hardening asymmetry in the stress-strain results, a detailed 3D finite element (FE) model with symmetric material properties was also generated for the cold expansion problem. Comparison between the results of the VMP and the FE modenThe copyright for the paper content remains with the author.Asymmetric hardeningVMPCold expansionFinite elementComputational MechanicsArticle