Article History
Received: 1 January 2020
Accepted: 24 June 2020
First Online: 9 September 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Financial support for this study was provided in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), and Honda Research Americas (HRA). The authors would particularly like to thank Dr. Hesham Ezzat of AISI and Dr. Kishore Pydimarry of HRA for their support of the project. We would also like to gratefully acknowledge Kenneth Cheong from the University of Waterloo for his valuable discussion on V-bend experiments and Pedram Samadian for quenching of the PHS1500 sheets. The authors would like to thank Amir Zhumagulov for characterizing the 270 Mild steel constitutive response. The excellent work by Dr. Larour from voestalpine Stahl GmbH was particularly valuable for thinning evaluation in the tight-radius bend test.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.