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Title: A crystal plasticity finite element model embedding strain-rate sensitivities inherent to deformation mechanisms: Application to alloy AZ31

Abstract

We report the fundamental power-law relationship representing the flow rule in crystal visco-plasticity ensures uniqueness in the selection of slip systems accommodating imposed plastic strain-rates. The power-law relationship also introduces an artificially high strain-rate sensitivity in crystal plasticity simulations, unless a high value of the power-law exponent is used. However, the use of high values for the exponent is limited by numerical tractability. This paper presents a numerical method implemented in a crystal plasticity finite element (CPFE) model for embedding any value of the power-law exponent reflecting the true material strain-rate sensitivity. Importantly, the method does not increase computation time involved in the simulations. The enhanced CPFE model is used to interpret and predict a complex strain-rate sensitive response and microstructural evolution of AZ31 Mg alloy. Measured values of strain-rate sensitivity for slip and twinning modes are used in the simulations. Calculations show that the model successfully captures the phenomena pertaining to the effect of changing applied strain-rate on the mechanical response including flow stress and evolution of texture and twinning for a broad range of strain-rates ranging from 10-3 s-1 to 103 s-1 and loading orientations in tension and compression. It is shown that such predictions are a consequencemore » of not only relative amounts of slip and twinning activities driven by a set of accurately characterized hardening law parameters but also values of the strain-rate sensitivities inherent to individual deformation mechanisms. Besides, the model validates the measured strain-rate dependency of deformation mechanisms while accurately reproducing the mechanical data. Hence, the model can be used to verify and further refine or infer measured strain-rate sensitivity per deformation mechanism by reproducing experimental data.« less

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1]
  1. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
  2. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1874185
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-21-24984
Journal ID: ISSN 0749-6419
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001; CMMI-1650641
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
International Journal of Plasticity
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 143; Journal ID: ISSN 0749-6419
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; microstructures; elastic-viscoplastic material; rate-dependent material; crystal plasticity; finite elements; T-CPFE UMAT

Citation Formats

Feather, William G., Savage, Daniel J., and Knezevic, Marko. A crystal plasticity finite element model embedding strain-rate sensitivities inherent to deformation mechanisms: Application to alloy AZ31. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1016/j.ijplas.2021.103031.
Feather, William G., Savage, Daniel J., & Knezevic, Marko. A crystal plasticity finite element model embedding strain-rate sensitivities inherent to deformation mechanisms: Application to alloy AZ31. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2021.103031
Feather, William G., Savage, Daniel J., and Knezevic, Marko. Fri . "A crystal plasticity finite element model embedding strain-rate sensitivities inherent to deformation mechanisms: Application to alloy AZ31". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2021.103031. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1874185.
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