Deformation behavior and anisotropic response of 2060 Al-Cu-Li alloy: experimental investigation and computational homogenization-based crystal plasticity modeling

Abstract

Since AA2060-T8 was launched the past few years, it was crucial to understand the deformation behavior and to establish a multi-scale model that can link the microstructural state of this alloy with its mechanical behavior. Thus, a computational homogenization-based crystal plasticity modeling was proposed to predict the deformation behavior and capture the anisotropic response of AA2060-T8 at different deformation conditions. Uniaxial tensile tests were accomplished at room temperature and strain rates of 0.001 and 0.1s−1 using samples with different fiber orientations to experimentally investigate the deformation behavior and anisotropic response of AA2060-T8. Thereafter, to clarify the details of the in-grain deformation features, a representative volume element was established to describe the real microstructure of AA2060-T8 in which each grain was discretized using many finite elements. Afterwards, a dislocation density-based crystal plasticity model was developed to describe the behavior of grains and simulate the plastic deformation of AA2060-T8. The material parameters utilized in the crystal plasticity model was determined from the stress–strain curves of the samples tested at loading direction of 30° with respect to rolling direction and strain rate of 0.001s−1. Additionally, a periodic boundary condition was modified to consider both geometrical and deformation induced anisotropy. The achieved results from the proposed computational homogenization method are in remarkable agreement with that obtained from experimental work. This means that the proposed computational homogenization method is able to predict the deformation behavior and capture the anisotropic response of AA2060-T8 at various deformation conditions.