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Deriving Macroscopic Damage Properties by Micromechanical Modeling of DP1000

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Macroscopic damage models can describe the toughness behavior and formability of metals in terms of limit strains. However, it requires time-, cost-, and material-intensive calibration. In this work, a simulation framework is proposed to derive macroscopic damage model parameters and related properties directly from the microstructure. For this purpose, statistically Representative Volume Elements of the investigated DP1000 steel were generated utilizing the Python framework DRAGen. This was based on quantitative characterization of EBSD measurements of the present microstructure. Mechanical properties were assigned to the geometrical microstructure model by calibrating a phenomenological Crystal Plasticity model for distinct phases. Martensite cracking was identified as the predominant damage mechanism. This behavior on the microscale was represented by an isotropic brittle damage model in DAMASK, using a fracture mechanical literature value as the critical energy release rate parameter. The presented modeling approach enables stress state-dependent prediction of macroscopic damage properties out of the present microstructure.

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Solid State Phenomena (Volume 390)

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Maximilian Neite*, Sebastian Münstermann

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Crystal Plasticity, Damage, Dual Phase Steel, Micromechanical Modeling, Representative Volume Element

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The publication of this article was funded by the RWTH Aachen University 10.13039/501100007210

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