A Constitutive Description of the Yield Strength and Strain Hardening Behaviors of Nano-Twinned Metals

Abstract:

In this paper, a constitutive description of the true stress-strain behaviors of nano-twinned metals has been proposed. The size effects of nano-scale twin boundaries (TBs) and ultra-fine grain boundaries (GBs) are considered in the athermal stress. The evolution of the dislocation density with strain under the influence of strain rate and temperature is introduced in the thermal stress based on our previous meso-scale constitutive model. The new model can effectively describe the strength transition regime in nano-twinned metals. The proposed model’s predictions of true stress-strain relation curves for nano-twinned copper are compared with the experimental results of uniaxial tension tests for validation. The comparisons show that the previous models in literature for the dependence of initial yield strength on twin spacing cannot describe the experimental data correctly when the twin spacing tends to zero; however, the phenomenological model proposed in this paper for the twin spacing depending relation is theoretically rational and can well describe the experimental data in the whole range of twin spacing.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 535-536)
• Pages: 109-112
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.535-536.109
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Chong Yang Gao, W.R. Lu
• Keywords: Constitutive Relation, Copper, Nano-Scale Twins, Size Effect, Twin Boundary

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