An Extended Self-Consistent Viscoplastic Polycrystal Formulation: Application to Polycrystals with Voids
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
In this work we consider the presence of ellipsoidal voids inside polycrystals submitted to large strain deformation. For this purpose, the originally incompressible viscoplastic self-consistent (VPSC) formulation of Lebensohn and Tomé (1993) has been extended to compressible polycrystals. In doing this, both the deviatoric and the spherical components of strain rate and stress are accounted for. Such an extended model allows us to account for the presence of voids and for porosity evolution, while preserving the anisotropy and crystallographic capabilities of the VPSC model. The formulation is adjusted to match Gurson model in the limit of rateindependent isotropic media and spherical voids. We present several applications of this extended VPSC model that address the coupling between texture, plastic anisotropy, void shape, triaxiality, and porosity evolution. This report contains a detailed and comprehensive derivation of the VPSC polycrystal model and of the equations associated with the theory. Such description is meant to serve as a general reference source for the VPSC formulation and is not limited to the particular case of voided polycrystals.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- DOE-W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 821538
- Report Number(s):
- LA-14044
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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