Abstract
The plastic flow behaviors of FCC polycrystalline aluminum after pre-cyclic tension-compression deformation are mainly investigated in tension–torsion stress space by the physically based crystal plasticity model introducing a back-stress. A global finite element model (GFEM) constructed of sufficient grains was established to simulate the same-size thin-walled tube specimen constrained and loaded as the experiments of yield surfaces. The computational results showed that the shape of subsequent yield surfaces and the plastic flow directions directly depended on the given offset strain levels and the applied re-loading paths under different pre-cyclic deformations. The angle deviation between the plastic flow direction and the theoretical orthogonal direction further indicated that there was a large difference between them in the inverse pre-straining direction, but the difference was negligible in the pre-straining direction. From the influence of the anisotropic evolution of the subsequent yield surfaces on plastic flow, we found that the plastic normality rule followed the smooth yield locus; conversely, the significant non-associated flow was attributed to the distorted yield locus. Furthermore, it was also demonstrated that the anisotropic evolution and the plastic flow trend of the subsequent yield surfaces obtained by experiments can be better reproduced by the crystal plasticity model.
Highlights
In order to characterize the plastic anisotropy of metal deformation, we employed the crystal plasticity model introducing a back-stress to simulate the evolution of the subsequent yield surface of polycrystalline aluminum after pre-cyclic loading, with the simulated process being the same as the experimental approaches
The plastic flow that reflects the direction of the plastic strain rate and a strain-hardening rule describing the yield surface evolution during plastic deformation of materials were further studied, and the experimental observations and the simulation results were
The plastic flow that reflects the direction of the plastic strain rate and a strain-hardening rule describing the yield surface evolution during plastic deformation of materials were further studied, and the experimental observations and the simulation results were compared and analyzed
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Various anisotropic yield functions based on the associated flow rule (AFR) or non-associated flow rule (non-AFR) to account for the anisotropy of yield surface evolution, Bauschinger effect, and strain-hardening behavior have been proposed [2,16,19,20]. It was demonstrated that micromechanical approach based on the crystallography of slip, the texture, or the preferred grain orientation can be used to predict the complicated anisotropic evolution of the yield surfaces as experimental results more accurately than the phenomenological approach under complex loading paths [17,18]. The capabilities of the models are verified by comparing the plastic flow direction of the yield surfaces simulated by the crystal plasticity model with experimentally observed results using the statistical methods
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