Symmetric and Asymmetric Rolling Pure Copper Foil: Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Simulation and Experiments

A systematic study has been conducted aiming to attain an insight into the influence of coefficient of roll speed asymmetry, crystal orientation and structure on the deformation behavior, and crystallographic orientation development during foil rolling. Simulations were successfully carried out by using crystal plasticity finite element method（CPFEM）,and a novel computational framework is presented for the representation of virtual polycrystalline grain structures. It has been found that asymmetric rolling（ASR） is more efficient in producing plastic deformation since it develops additional shear strain and activity of slip system compared with symmetric rolling（SR）. For ASR, increase in the length of the shear zone, and decrease in the amount of the pressure and roll force would lead to further reduction. The shear strain path in SR and ASR is strictly influenced by the misorientation of neighbor grains, and corresponding {1 1 1} pole figures offer direct evidence of the spread of crystallographic orientation around the normal direction. The activity of slip systems was examined in detail and found that the predicted results are consistent with the surface layer model. The accuracy of the developed CPFEM model is verified by the fact that the simulated results of roll force coincide well with the experimental results.

Springback behavior of tailor rolled blank in U-shape forming

The springback of tailor rolled blanks with quenching and partitioning steels was investigated.In order to find out the springback behavior and related influence factors for the novel sheets,both experimental and simulation methods have been used to compare and analyze the springback characteristics of equal thickness blanks and tailor rolled blanks in U-channel forming.From the results,the overall springback angles of tailor rolled blanks at thin and thick sides are respectively 106.79° and 99.705°,which are both lower than those of the corresponding equal thickness blanks.Due to the existence of the thickness transition zone,the stress distribution in thin and thick sides of blanks is changed.The location of dangerous region in thin side of tailor rolled blanks is closer to the end of side,and the thick side moved to the middle of straight wall,which are different with the equal thickness blanks.Afterwards,the released quantitles of tangential stress and strain per unit section of blank are adopted to calculate relative springback angles and give novel evaluation criteria for qualitatively analyzing the amount of springback angles.By comparing the results,it shows that the tangential strain method is more suitable for the actual situation.

Phase diagram calculation and predication of Au–Pd–Zr ternary system

Au-Pd-Zr ternary alloy phase diagram at 25℃ was calculated by Panda phase calculation software,and the thermodynamic data were based on three binary alloy phase diagrams：Pd-Au,Au-Zr,and Pd-Zr.Five composition points in the ternary phase diagram were selected to predict the precipitation order.One（32Au-32Pd-36Zr） of the five composition points in ternary phase diagram was chosen to verify the correctness of the phase diagram calculation and the precipitation order by scanning electron microscopy（SEM）,energy dispersive spectroscopy（EDS）,and X-ray diffraction（XRD）.The unknown phase in XRD patterns was predicated by EDS and materials studio（MS） software.The experimental results show that there are seven key ternary reactions points and 17 phase regions in all isothermal sections at 25℃.The thermodynamic process and microstructure for the alloy phase can be described in order according to the vertical section in phase diagram.The phase compositions of the chosen one point are consistent with calculation prediction.The unknown phase in XRD patterns should be Zr_2AuPd by the first principle X-ray simulation.