Physically-Based Internal Variable Model for Rate-Dependent Plasticity

摘要

A unified model is developed for creep and plasticity in metals, using internal state variables to reflect the current microstructure. The inelastic flow rule is taken to be a power function incorporating a kinematic and an isotropic internal variable, where the microstructural origins of these properties are dislocation pileups and dislocation obstacle interaction, respectively. The model is generalized for three-dimensional deformation and evolutionary functions are developed for the internal variables to account for strain hardening and thermal recovery. An experimental test and data reduction procedure is presented which allows all the material constants to be determined for materials which exhibit secondary creep. The procedure is applied to pure aluminum. This generalized model provides a physical basis for predicting mechanical response along arbitrary deformation paths. (ERA citation 03:043278)