6.1. Application to AA 2090-T3 and AA2008-T4 with Weak SDE
The modified Drucker yield criterion stated is implemented to anisotropic aluminum alloys AA 2090-T3 and AA2008-T4 with weak SDE.
Table 1 shows the experimental data described in detail by Yoon [
28,
29] and are supplied to calibrate the anisotropic material parameters in the extended Drucker yield function with the method described in
Section 5. In order to clarify the simulation accuracy of the extended Drucker yield criterion, the simulation results with popular yield functions Hill’s 48 and Yld2004-18p are adopted to supply anisotropic parameters. The calibration of anisotropic parameters of the Hill’s 48 yield function is on the basis of yield stresses
,
,
and
. Besides, parameters of Yld2004-18p yield function are computed with eight tensile yield stresses and eight tensile
r-values. The optimized material parameters of Yield 2004-18p are shown in
Table 2 and
Table 3 for AA 2090-T3 and AA 2008-T4, respectively. The calibrated anisotropic parameters of Hill’s 48 are displayed in
Table 4 and
Table 5 for AA 2090-T3 and AA 2008-T4, respectively.
In the paper, two types of Drucker yield functions are selected for comparative study. The one denoted as Ducker-σ-R is determined by Equation (40), while the one named as Ducker-σ is determined by Equation (41). The optimized anisotropic material parameters are listed in
Table 6 for AA 2090-T3 and
Table 7 for AA 2008-T4. The yield loci constructed by Hill’s 48, Yld2004-18p, two extended Drucker yield functions, and the experimental data points are plotted in
Figure 1 for AA 2090-T3 and
Figure 2 for AA 2008-T4. The yield surface of Hill’s 48 is symmetric because the function is quadratic of stress components. In the first quadrant, Hill’s 48, Yld2004-18p and Ducker-σ yield functions show quite good coincidence to three tensile yield stresses
,
and
obtained by experiment. Only the Ducker-σ can precisely describe the SDE. The pronounced difference between the yield surfaces denoted as Ducker-σ-R and Ducker-σ reveals attention must be paid when choosing objective functions to optimize material parameters.
The directionalities of uni-axial tensile and compressive yield stress are anticipated by Hill’s 48, Yld2004-18p, two Drucker yield functions in
Figure 3 and
Figure 4 for AA 2090-T3 and
Figure 5 and
Figure 6 for AA 2008-T4, respectively. Compared with the experimental data, it indicates that all the anisotropic yield functions have the ability to well reflect the trend of tensile yield stress on loading directions. Drucker-σ-R yield function shows a noticeable discrepancy when the angle begins from 60°, probably due to the effect of
r-values on the prediction of tensile yield stress. Due to the symmetric character of Hill’s 48 and Yld2004-18p yield criteria, they are not capable of correctly predicting the uni-axial compressive yield stress. The modified Drucker yield function Drucker-σ precisely predicts the compressive yield stresses along all directions.
In case anisotropy prediction of tensile
r-values, Drucker-R potential function determined by Equation (42) is used instead of Drucker-σ yield function, i.e., non-AFR will be implemented. The calibrated material parameters of Drucker-R potential function are listed in
Table 8 for AA 2090-T3 and
Table 9 for AA 2008-T4, respectively.
Figure 7 and
Figure 8 show the
r-values predicted by Hill’s 48, Yld2004-18p and two Drucker functions. The potential function of Hill’s 48 which is determined with
,
,
and
is denoted as Hill48-R and used for comparison. The Hill’s 48 potential function cannot provide sufficient predictive accuracy of the
r-value directionalities. It is noted that there are only four anisotropic parameters and is lack of the ability to predict the
r-values along all the directions. Drucker-σ-R yield function can well predict the
r-values before 45° along the rolling direction but fails afterwards. With the increase of anisotropic parameters, there is a growing flexibility of yield functions. Yld2004-18p and Drucker-R yield functions can well predict the
r-values while Drucker-R yield function provides more precise prediction.
6.2. Application to Zirconium Plate with Significant SDE
The developed Drucker yield function formulated in
Section 3 is applied to predict the yield surface evolution of a clock-rolled Zirconium plate with significant SDE. A series of clock-rolling and annealing processing cycles were carried out, resulting in typical basal texture (where
-axes of the crystals are predominately accordant to the plate normal direction). For sake of obtaining isotropic in-plane texture, multiple rolling passes with rotation were carried out.
The visco-plastic self-consistent (VPSC) polycrystalline model [
30] was used by Plunkett [
31] on the basis of experimental observations (structures and textures, stress-strain relations of uniaxial tensile\compressive test and micromorphology) to model the evolution of yield surfaces. The calculation results of VPSC analytical model show that twinning induced by stretching dominates in tension at room temperature while pyramidal
-slip prevails along the
-axis in compression. Their experimental results have shown that the mechanical response of the plate significantly relies on the dominant orientation of the
-axis regarding the loading direction.
In
Figure 9, the high-purity Zirconium indicates a comparatively severe basal texture showing almost in-plane axisymmetry. It indicates that its mechanical behavior is prone to be controlled by the direction and intensity of the applied load.
To verify the predictability of the extended Drucker yield function, the strain distribution, as well as the movement of the neutral layer due to the significant difference between tensile and compressive behavior in a four-point beam bending test, were simulated. The finite element simulation was conducted based upon the work of Tomé [
32] and Kaschner [
33] as they have reported experimental results about the deformation anisotropy of textured polycrystalline pure Zirconium. Hill’s 48, Yld2004-18p and the extended Drucker yield criteria are performed in the test simulation by ABAQUS/Explicit user subroutines. There are two upper pin dowels moving downward and two lower pin dowels holding stopped in the four-point bending fixture. The displacement of the upper pin dowels is 6 mm. The distance between the center of two upper pins is 12.7 mm and 38.1 mm of two lower pins. The schematic diagram of the four-point bending test and the geometry dimensions of the beam are shown in
Figure 10. Due to geometric symmetry, only half of the bend geometry is established in the finite element simulation and symmetric boundary conditions are applied.
The conditions of the four-point beam bending test, including element size and boundary conditions, were taken from [
33,
34]. Eight-node hexahedral elements (C3D8R in ABAQUS 6.14/CAE, Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp., Providence, RI, USA) with selective reduced integration are used to discretize the beam, shown in
Figure 11. The number of elements along transverse and normal directions of the beam cross-section is six and along the longitudinal direction is 75. There are 2700 finite elements in total, which is the same as the one in Reference [
34].
There are two kinds of beam orientations considered in all the yield criteria, supposing the rolling direction is in accordance with the
x-axis: (i) case through-thickness bending (TTB), the normal direction of the beam is predominantly consistent with the global
z-axis; and (ii) case in-plane bending (IPB), the beam normal direction is mostly coincident with the global
y-axis. The initial cross-sectional dimensions of the beam are 6.35 mm × 6.35 mm, with a longitudinal length of 50.8 mm. In the paper, the law of isotropic work hardening is considered, simplifying the hardening model as the defined yield surface expanding isotropically during plastic deformation. The maximum strain of the outmost layer of the bent beam is about 0.15 and as reported in Reference [
35], the Zirconium plate shows the significant SDE when the plastic strain is of 15%. Thus, in the paper the anisotropic parameters corresponding to the strain of 15% are used to optimize the anisotropic parameters of the yield criteria.
According to Reference [
35], the anisotropic parameters for the Zirconium plate for the strain of 15% is presented in
Table 10. The data includes
r-values, uniaxial tensile and compressive yield stresses along different directionalities. Besides, the equibiaxial tensile yield stress and
r-value are also supplied.
To describe the material plastic deformation behavior as close as possible, the above mentioned anisotropic data are used to calibrate Hill’s 48, Yld2004-18p and two extended Drucker yield criteria using the functions and optimization method stated in
Section 5.
Table 11,
Table 12 and
Table 13 give the calibrated material coefficients of Yld2004-18p, Hill’s 48 and two extended Drucker yield criteria for Zirconium.
Figure 12 shows the yield surfaces for Zirconium with different yield criteria. The predicted ones using extended Drucker yield function reproduce the deformation behavior quite well for all stress states. There are fewer differences between two kinds of Drucker yield functions, indicating there is no noticeable discrepancy when using AFR or non-AFR to predict the initial yield locus. Because of the symmetry of Hill’s 48 and Yld2004-18p yield function, though they have the ability to well predict the stress ratio in a tensile stress state, they cannot predict the tension-compression asymmetry, leading to significant underestimation of equibiaxial compression value.
Figure 13,
Figure 14 and
Figure 15 illustrate the comparisons between experimental and numerical normalized tensile/compressive yield stresses and
r-values for several yield criteria, respectively. The yield stress directionalities and
r-values are precisely predicted with Drucker-
function, while the Drucker-
-
R displays a less accurate coincidence because of fewer stress directionalities considered in the objective function. As for Hill’s 48 and Yld2004-18p, they are not capable of predicting the asymmetry of tension-compression, leading to failure in predicting normalized compressive yield stresses. All the yield criteria used have considerable accuracy in predicting the
r-values except Drucker-
-
R, which has to make a balance between stress directionalities and
r-values.
After calibration, the four-point bending test is simulated and the loading force, strain distribution and beam configuration are predicted and compared.
Figure 16 presents the evolution of stroke force for the Zirconium beam with different yield functions, indicating that the punch forces of two extended Drucker evolve in almost the same way. The same tendency can be found with Hill’s 48 and Yld2004-18p yield functions. In case of TTB, the load force for symmetric yield functions of Hill’s 48 or Yld2004-18p is lower than the extended asymmetric Drucker yield functions, because of their underestimations of yielding in compression. In the case of IPB, the punch force evolutions obtained for Zirconium are almost the same no matter symmetric or asymmetric yield functions are implemented, indicating nearly isotropic mechanical property distribution in-plane direction.
Figure 17 shows the final configurations of the simulated results with various yield functions and superimposed to the experimentally obtained data (black dots) in Reference [
33]. Regarding the predicted deformed beam central cross-section, all models predict similar wedge-shaped cross-sections for the TTB case as the hard-to-deform
-axes are mostly in accordance with the
z-axis. The reason for the wedge-shaped cross-sections is due to a stress state of nearly uni-axial tension at the outmost layer along the beam longitudinal direction (the
x-axis) and changing to almost uni-axial compressive stress state from the neutral plane to the innermost layer.
It is apparent that the predictions using two extended Drucker models are in coincidence with the observed data. This is due to the fact that the extended Drucker models can incorporate SDE quite well.
Figure 17b is the local enlarged zone of case TTB (the dashed line rectangular at the low right corner) and it shows that the extended Drucker yield criterion under non-AFR can model the SDE better.
In case of IPB, where the
-axes are in accordance to the
x-axis, the predicted contours of all yield functions well coincide with the experimental data, i.e., rectangular cross-section shown in
Figure 17c, indicating correct prediction of the rigidity in the direction of hard-to-deform
-axes of all the mentioned yield functions.
Figure 18 shows the strain distributions along the direction of
z-axis in the central cross-section and compared with observed experimental data obtained by a local strain measurement method determined by dot-matrix deposition and mapping [
34].
Figure 18a is the case of TTB, where all the yield criteria can predict similar plastic strain distributions along the normal orientation of Zirconium plate where the hard-to-deform
-axes are predominately parallel to. But for the plastic strain distribution along
x-axis, the extended Drucker yield criteria are in better coincidence with observed data, particularly with the increase of the absolute value of beam height. The unbalanced strain distributions lead to the shift of the neutral layer predicted by extended Drucker yield criteria considering SDE.
For IPB case, compared with experimental data, all the yield criteria can predict the distribution of strain components quite well. Because in IPB case, the hard-to-deform direction is predominately parallel to the
y-axis, the strain distribution difference between the outmost and innermost fibers of the rectangular Zirconium beam is relatively small compared with that in the case of TTB. The maximum value of plastic strain according to
Figure 18b, obtained by simulation or experiment, is about 17%, which is approaching 15% plastic strain value chosen to define the yield and hardening locus for the Zirconium plate.