COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SINGLE CRYSTAL CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS FOR CRYSTAL PLASTICITY FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

Abstract

Two sets of single crystal constitutive equations used for the crystal plasticity finite element analysis are comparatively investigated by simulating simple deformation of oriented single crystals. The first of these consists of conventional constitutive equations, which have been adopted for the prediction of deformation texture and their parameters are generally obtained by back-fitting polycrystalline stress-strain response. The other set uses interactions between moving dislocations on the primary slip system and the corresponding forest dislocations. The idealized Orowan hardening mechanism is adopted for the calculation of the critical force, and constitutive parameters are determined by the geometry of dislocations, thus less fitting procedure is involved. The stress-strain curves of copper single crystal are used to demonstrate how the two models work for the orientation dependent stress-strain responses.