The research work presented in this manuscript is divided into three parts. The first is concerned with the modeling of material instabilities in metallic materials (localization, necking ...). The aim is to develop theoretical and numerical tools for the prediction of these phenomena and to validate them through forming limit diagrams for ferritic and dual-phase steels. Two complementary approaches have been adopted: the first is micromechanical based on crystal plasticity coupled with appropriate scale-transition schemes, while the second is phenomenological using advanced constitutive models, which we have coupled with damage. In particular, Rice's bifurcation criterion, associated with the loss of ellipticity of the governing equations,...