Abstract
This paper is aimed at identifying critical microstructural parameters that cause local stress concentration due to load shedding between microstructural regions of varying strengths. This stress is viewed as one of the fundamental reasons for crack initiation in Ti-6242. A rate dependent, anisotropic, elasto-crystal plasticity based finite element model (CPFEM) for poly-phase Ti-6242 is used in this study to identify the critical variables responsible for localized stress concentration due to load shedding. The model can account for various microstructural features like grain size, orientation and misorientation distributions. Various microstructural variables, such as crystal orientation, misorientation, grain size, Schmid factor and composition of phases, are considered in a detailed parametric study. Critical combinations of these parameters that result in high stress due to load shedding are identified. Finally, load shedding in a microstructure model of polycrystalline Ti-6242 is discussed from the results of CPFEM simulations. The model is statistically equivalent with respect to features observed in OIM scans.
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