ON PREDICTING THE CHANNEL DIE COMPRESSION BEHAVIOR OF HCP MAGNESIUM AM30 USING CRYSTAL PLASTICITY FEM

摘要

Deformation of polycrystalline aggregates of HCP crystals was investigated by employing crystal plasticity and finite element simulations. Results were validated using channel die compression tests. The three dimensional polycrystal, represented by Voronoi techniques, was assigned an initial distribution of crystallographic orientations determined from X-Ray Diffraction. The mechanical properties from the channel die compression tests were used to correlate the material parameters of the crystal plasticity model. Simulations predicted grain-to-grain interactions and the resulting texture evolution under channel die compression. The inhomogeneous deformation among grains was mapped by a stress and a strain distribution and grain orientation spread. The simulation results were compared with experimental observations of an HCP polycrystal subjected to channel die compression.