Developing a model for the microscopic material behaviour of a tailored formed joining zone of an aluminium‐steel hybrid solid component

Abstract

AbstractTailored Forming is a complex process joining two materials before forming. Especially the joining zone of the hybrid solid component is a possible weakness. Hence, our goal is to predict and adjust the thermomechanical material behaviour of the joining zone during and after the tailored forming process. The hybrid solid components studied in this work are composed of the aluminium alloy EN AW‐6082 and the steel 20MnCr5. Metallurgical investigations on both materials show a polycrystalline microstructure. In the steel component, the two constituents ferrite and pearlite can be found with nearly the same volume fraction and randomly distributed grains. Furthermore, between the two bulk materials aluminium and steel, a thin layer of brittle intermetallic phases can be observed. In this work, the intermetallic phases are considered to behave purely thermoelastic, whereas the material model for aluminium, ferrite and pearlite represents thermoplastic material behaviour. We present the dislocation density based models for the thermoplastic materials formulated in a continuum mechanics framework. Thereby, different mechanisms of annihilation contributing to the evolution equation for the internal variables will be on focus.