Mechanical Behavior of Light Alloys with Bimodal Grain Size Distribution

Abstract:

Deformation and damage at the meso-scale level in representative volumes (RVE) of light ultrafine grained (UFG) alloys with distribution of grain size were simulated in wide loading conditions. The computational models of RVE were developed using the data of structure researches aluminum and magnesium UFG alloys on meso-, micro -, and nanoscale levels. The critical fracture stress on meso-scale level depends not only probabilistic of grain size distribution in RVE but relative volumes of coarse grains. Microcracks nucleation is associated with strain localization in UFG partial volumes in alloys with bimodal grain size distribution. Microcracks branch in the vicinity of coarse and ultrafine grains boundaries. It is revealed that the occurrence of bimodal grain size distributions causes the increasing of UFG alloys ductility, but decreasing of the tensile strength. The distribution the shear stress and the local particle velocity takes place at mesoscale level under dynamic loading of UFG alloys with bimodal grain size. The increasing of fine precipitations concentration not only causes the hardening but increasing of ductility of UFG alloys with bimodal grain size distribution.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 756)
• Pages: 205-213
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.756.205
• Online since: April 2015
• Authors: Vladimir A. Skripnyak*, Evgeniya G. Skripnyak, Nataliya V. Skripnyak
• Keywords: Ductility, Fracture, Grain Sizes Distribution, Mechanical Behaviour, Multi-Scale Simulation

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