Plastic Slip and Early Stage of Fatigue Damage in Polycrystals: Comparison between Experiments and Crystal Plasticity Finite Elements Simulations

Abstract:

For conventional materials with solid solution, fatigue damage is often related to microplasticity and is largely sensitive to microstructure at different scales concerning dislocations, grains and textures. The present study focuses on slip bands activity and fatigue crack initiation with special attention on the influence of the size, the morphology and the crystal orientation of grains and their neighbours. The local configurations which favour - or prevent - crack initiation are not completely identified. In this work, the identification and the analysis of several crack initiation sites are performed using Scanning Electron Microscopy and Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction. Crystal plasticity finite elements simulation is employed to evaluate local microplasticity at the scale of the grains. One of the originality of this work is the creation of 3D meshes of polycrystalline aggregates corresponding to zones where fatigue cracks have been observed. 3D data obtained by serial-sectioning are used to reconstruct actual microstructure. The role of the plastic slip activity as a driving force for fatigue crack initiation is discussed according to the comparison between experimental observations and simulations. The approach is applied to 316L type austenitic stainless steels under low-cycle fatigue loading.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 891-892)
• Pages: 1711-1716
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.891-892.1711
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Loic Signor*, Emmanuel Lacoste, Patrick Villechaise, Thomas Ghidossi, Stephan Courtin
• Keywords: 316L Austenitic Stainless Steel, 3D EBSD, Crystal Plasticity, Fatigue Crack Initiation

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