Correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloys

The elastic and plastic anisotropy of aluminium wrought alloys is largely controlled by the crystallographic texture of the material, which has developed during the preceding thermomechanical processing. Conversely, texture can be exploited to simulate anisotropic materials properties, typically wit...

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Main Author: Olaf Engler
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Published: Elsevier 2025-03-01
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description The elastic and plastic anisotropy of aluminium wrought alloys is largely controlled by the crystallographic texture of the material, which has developed during the preceding thermomechanical processing. Conversely, texture can be exploited to simulate anisotropic materials properties, typically with the help of crystal-plasticity simulations. The present paper summarizes the author's activities on using texture to simulate anisotropic materials behaviour with the help of the visco-plastic self-consistent (VPSC) scheme. Application possibilities include the prediction of in-plane anisotropy developing during uniaxial and plane strain tensile tests, earing during cup drawing of Al sheet products as well as polycrystal-plasticity driven prediction of input data used to calibrate phenomenological yield functions.Sheet metal forming is commonly simulated with the finite element method (FEM), where anisotropic properties are accounted for by suitable materials models. Notwithstanding that state-of-the-art phenomenological yield functions provide for a high flexibility sufficient to capture the anisotropy of strongly textured materials, the experimental determination of the required calibration parameters is tedious. Rather, the materials parameters needed to calibrate the yield function are derived in a pragmatic and computationally efficient approach with VPSC simulations from texture. The resulting multilevel modelling framework is evaluated against earing simulations which constitute a demanding proof-of-principle for consideration of the anisotropic materials response during FEM forming simulations.
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spelling doaj-art-9cbd6d1e5c134ba29bf051a3d1b4fdcd2025-01-15T04:11:41ZengElsevierJournal of Materials Research and Technology2238-78542025-03-0135514522Correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloysOlaf Engler0Speira GmbH, Research and Development Bonn, PO Box 2468, D-53014, Bonn, GermanyThe elastic and plastic anisotropy of aluminium wrought alloys is largely controlled by the crystallographic texture of the material, which has developed during the preceding thermomechanical processing. Conversely, texture can be exploited to simulate anisotropic materials properties, typically with the help of crystal-plasticity simulations. The present paper summarizes the author's activities on using texture to simulate anisotropic materials behaviour with the help of the visco-plastic self-consistent (VPSC) scheme. Application possibilities include the prediction of in-plane anisotropy developing during uniaxial and plane strain tensile tests, earing during cup drawing of Al sheet products as well as polycrystal-plasticity driven prediction of input data used to calibrate phenomenological yield functions.Sheet metal forming is commonly simulated with the finite element method (FEM), where anisotropic properties are accounted for by suitable materials models. Notwithstanding that state-of-the-art phenomenological yield functions provide for a high flexibility sufficient to capture the anisotropy of strongly textured materials, the experimental determination of the required calibration parameters is tedious. Rather, the materials parameters needed to calibrate the yield function are derived in a pragmatic and computationally efficient approach with VPSC simulations from texture. The resulting multilevel modelling framework is evaluated against earing simulations which constitute a demanding proof-of-principle for consideration of the anisotropic materials response during FEM forming simulations.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2238785425000596TextureAnisotropyr valueEaringFormabilityYield function
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Correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloys
Journal of Materials Research and Technology
Texture
Anisotropy
r value
Earing
Formability
Yield function
title Correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloys
title_full Correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloys
title_fullStr Correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloys
title_full_unstemmed Correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloys
title_short Correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloys
title_sort correlating crystallographic texture with anisotropic properties and sheet metal forming of aluminium alloys
topic Texture
Anisotropy
r value
Earing
Formability
Yield function
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2238785425000596
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