Numerical simulations of sheet metal forming processes need the establishment of highly reliable results, which in turn need the accurate identification of mechanical properties. In this paper a study is presented on the choice of the characterization function of flow stress-strain curve of sheet metal materials, as well as the selection of the best yield locus, based on experimental uniaxial tensile and biaxial hydraulic bulge tests performed on dual-phase steels of industrial interest. To obtain a better characterization of the hardening curve, a combination is made using the uniaxial tensile test data with biaxial hydraulic bulge test results, since bulge test covers a larger range of plastic strain when compared to tensile test. Since the two flow curves have different strain paths, they can’t be directly compared or combined. Therefore, it is necessary a transformation of flow stress-strain curve provided from biaxial bulge test into equivalent stress-strain curve. Different methodologies were applied to transform biaxial stress-strain curve to an equivalent one and the different results are compared and evaluated.
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