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A. Casaroli et alii, Fracture and Structural Integrity, 75 (2026) 104-123; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.75.09

Optimization of austenitic and ferritic steels for deep drawing. Part 1: metallurgical and mechanical analyses.

Andrea Casaroli, Edoardo Scabini, Marco V. Boniardi, Riccardo Gerosa, Barbara Rivolta Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, via La Masa 1, 20156 Milano, Italy

andrea.casaroli@polimi.it , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5207-5547 edoardo.scabini@polimi.it , https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4487-912X marco.boniardi@polimi.it , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2438-7890 riccardo.gerosa@polimi.it , https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0810-0279 barbara.rivolta@polimi.it , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8949-0549

Citation: Casaroli, A., Scabini, E., Boniardi, M. V., Gerosa, R., Rivolta., B., Optimization of austenitic and ferritic steels for deep drawing. Part 1: metallurgical and mechanical analyses., Fracture and Structural Integrity, 75 (2026) 104-123.

Received: 25.09.2025 Accepted: 15.10.2025 Published: 18.10.2025 Issue: 01.2026

Copyright: © 2026 This is an open access article under the terms of the CC-BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

K EYWORDS . Deep drawing, Stainless steels, Process parameters, Lubrication analyses, Erichsen test, metallographic analyses, ANOVA.

I NTRODUCTION

he deep drawing process of stainless steel sheet metal represents a fundamental technology for modern industry, thanks to its ability to generate a wide range of high quality and low cost products for applications in the food industry [1,2] for nautical equipment, for applications in the chemical or petrochemical sector which must guarantee high resistance to corrosion, for design objects and more generally for high added value uses in the civil and industrial sectors. The possibility of rapid mass production, combined with the ability to minimize waste, make deep drawing a highly competitive manufacturing method in terms of costs per unit produced. T

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