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Title: A new micromechanics based full field numerical framework to simulate the effects of dynamic recrystallization on the formability of HCP metals

Journal Article · · International Journal of Plasticity
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  1. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  2. Laval Univ., Quebec, QB (Canada)
  3. General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI (United States)
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

This work presents a new full-field, efficient and mesh-free numerical framework to model microstructure evolution, dynamic recrystallization (DRX) and formability in hexagonal closed-packed (HCP) metals such as magnesium alloys at warm temperatures. A rate tangent-fast Fourier transform-based elasto-viscoplastic crystal plasticity constitutive model for HCP metals (RTCP-FFT-HCP) is coupled with a probabilistic cellular automata (CA) approach to model DRX (CA-DRX). Furthermore, this new model is coupled with the Marciniak-Kuczynski (M-K) approach to model formability of magnesium alloys at elevated temperatures. The RTCP-FFT-HCP model computes macro stress-strain, twinning volume fraction, micromechanical fields, texture evolution and local dislocation density. Nucleation of new grains and their subsequent growth is modeled using the cellular automata approach with probabilistic state switching rule. First, the proposed RTCP-FFT-HCP model is validated by comparing the predicted stress-strain responses and texture evolution under uniaxial tension and compression with experimental measurements for AZ31 sheet alloy at room temperature. The coupled CA-RTCPFFT-HCP model is further validated by comparing the predicted stress-strain responses and texture evolution in uniaxial compression with experimental measurements at 100 °C, 200 °C and 300 °C for the AZ31 sheet alloy. Next, the forming limit diagrams (FLDs) with and without including the effects of DRX are simulated at 100 °C, 200 °C and 300 °C for AZ31 sheet alloy. The predicted FLDs with DRX show very good agreement with the experimental measurements and clearly demonstrate the need for an accurate DRX model. The study reveals that the DRX strongly affects the deformed grain structure, grain size and texture evolution and also highlights the importance accounting for DRX during FLD simulations at high temperatures.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Grant/Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001; IRCPJ-503185-2016
OSTI ID:
1734719
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-19-31405
Journal Information:
International Journal of Plasticity, Vol. 125; ISSN 0749-6419
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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