Abstract
High strength aluminium alloys are widely used in aerospace components which are produced through forming and joining processes. The ductile failure in these metals occur due to the evolution and accumulation of microscopic defects, such as micro-voids and shear bands. Present work investigates the underlying physical mechanisms during ductile failure by performing a rigorous fully-validated three dimensional crystal plasticity finite element studies in aluminium alloy single crystals. Representative volume element (RVE) based simulations of single crystalline aluminium alloys (AA-5xxx) with different void geometries and orientations have been performed. Both local and nonlocal crystal plasticity
constitutive models have been implemented in finite element framework and are used to seek new insights and interrelationship among void growth, initial porosity, initial void size, plastic anisotropy, and local/nonlocal size effects.
constitutive models have been implemented in finite element framework and are used to seek new insights and interrelationship among void growth, initial porosity, initial void size, plastic anisotropy, and local/nonlocal size effects.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 035010 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Mar 2017 |
Bibliographical note
The author thankfully acknowledges the financial support of EPSRC funding (EP/L021714/1).Keywords
- void growth
- non-local crystal plasticity theory
- single crystal aluminium alloy
- lattice rotation
