The plastic anisotropy of sheet metal is usually caused by preferred orientation of grains, developed by mechanical deformation and thermal treatment. In the present study, a Taylor-like polycrystal model suggested by...The plastic anisotropy of sheet metal is usually caused by preferred orientation of grains, developed by mechanical deformation and thermal treatment. In the present study, a Taylor-like polycrystal model suggested by Asaro and Needleman is applied to investigate the evolution of the anisotropic behavior of a face centered cubic (FCC) polycrystalline metal, which is considered having {111} 110 slip systems, by stretching it along an arbitrary direction after it has undergone a plane-strain compression that rationally simulates the cold rolling process of FCC polycrystalline pure aluminium. By using the Taylor-like polycrystal model, pole fgures are obtained to describe the texture development of polycrystalline aggregate after plane-strain compression, and then the plastic anisotropy of polycrystalline aggregate is evaluated by stretch- ing the polycrystalline aggregate in different direction in term of yield stress. According to the results, the contours of longitudinal fow stress in three-dimensional orientation space are given and analyzed. Experiment results similar to the prediction of planar anisotropy can be found in the literature written by Takahashi et al. that indirectly show the correctness of the prediction of non-planar plastic anisotropy by this analysis.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50371070),the Aviation Science Foun-dation of China(No.01C53015)and the Doctoral Foundation of Northwestern Polytechnical University.
文摘The plastic anisotropy of sheet metal is usually caused by preferred orientation of grains, developed by mechanical deformation and thermal treatment. In the present study, a Taylor-like polycrystal model suggested by Asaro and Needleman is applied to investigate the evolution of the anisotropic behavior of a face centered cubic (FCC) polycrystalline metal, which is considered having {111} 110 slip systems, by stretching it along an arbitrary direction after it has undergone a plane-strain compression that rationally simulates the cold rolling process of FCC polycrystalline pure aluminium. By using the Taylor-like polycrystal model, pole fgures are obtained to describe the texture development of polycrystalline aggregate after plane-strain compression, and then the plastic anisotropy of polycrystalline aggregate is evaluated by stretch- ing the polycrystalline aggregate in different direction in term of yield stress. According to the results, the contours of longitudinal fow stress in three-dimensional orientation space are given and analyzed. Experiment results similar to the prediction of planar anisotropy can be found in the literature written by Takahashi et al. that indirectly show the correctness of the prediction of non-planar plastic anisotropy by this analysis.
