Limitation of Current Hardening Models in Predicting Anisotropy by Twinning in HCP Metals: Application to a Rod-Textured AM30 Magnesium Alloy

Abstract

When a strongly textured hexagonal close packed (HCP) metal is loaded under an orientation causing profuse twinning or detwinning, the stress-strain curve is sigmoidal in shape and inflects at some threshold. Authors have largely attributed the dramatic stress increase in the lower-bound vicinity of the inflection point to a combined effect of a Hall-Petch mechanism correlated to grain refinement by twinning, and twinning-induced reorientation requiring activation of hard slip modes. We experimentally and numerically demonstrate that these two mechanisms alone are unable to reproduce the stress-strain behaviors obtained under intermediate loading orientations correlated to in-between profuse twinning and nominal twinning. We argue based on adopting various mechanistic approaches in hardening model correlations from the literature. We used both a physics dislocation based model and a phenomenological Voce hardening model. The HCP material is exemplified by an extruded AM30 magnesium alloy with a <10(bar over 1)0>-fiber parallel to the extrusion direction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA540543

Entities

People

  • A .l. Oppedal
  • C. N. Tome
  • H. El Kadiri
  • J. C. Baird
  • M. F. Horstemeyer
  • S. C. Vogel

Organizations

  • Mississippi State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alloys
  • Anisotropy
  • Crystals
  • Diffraction
  • Dislocations
  • Extrusion
  • Hardening
  • Literature
  • Magnesium
  • Magnesium Alloys
  • Materials
  • Metals
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Strain Hardening
  • Strain Rate
  • Stress Strain Relations
  • Stresses

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.