铜双晶体的循环应力-应变响应

比较了铜单晶体和多晶体疲劳行为的异同,提出了研究双晶体疲劳行为的必要性．总结了具有不同晶体取向和晶界的铜双晶体的疲劳行为的最新进展．利用平行晶界铜双晶体的取向因子和晶界影响区,总结了在循环载荷作用下的晶界强化模型．分析了垂直晶界铜双晶体循环塑性变形行为的特点,讨论了组元晶体取向对垂直晶界铜双晶体循环应力－应变曲线的影响．提出了提高单晶体和双晶体疲劳强度的控制因素．     

镍基双晶体晶界断裂特性研究

对单晶体以及晶界平行晶粒裂纹和晶界垂直晶粒裂纹的双晶体的断韧性进行了实验研究,设计了三种三点弯曲试件,得到了单晶体和晶界的断裂韧性值,在晶界垂直晶粒裂纹的双晶体试验中,揭示了晶界对晶粒断裂的屏蔽效应;当裂纹距晶界某一特定长度时,断裂韧性值最大,理论分析和晶体滑移有限元数值分析揭示了这种屏蔽效应的机理,双晶晶界处的变表相容性导致了理解纹尖端应国和场的重新分布,并由此产生了晶界屏蔽效应。     

单晶高温合金中铸造微孔洞的扩长

基于有限变形晶体塑性本构关系及轴对称体胞模型,采用有限元的方法,分析了在不同取向偏角及不同滑移系开动,单晶高温合金中铸造微孔洞扩长的力学行为。分析结果表明:取向偏角对铸造微孔洞的扩长具有重要的意义,但对铸造微孔洞的形状改变影响不大,为改善单晶高温合金热端部件的疲劳、蠕变性能,控制晶体的取向偏角是很必要的;滑移系族开动的类型对铸造微孔洞的扩长有很大的影响,这种影响与Schmid因子、加载的取向相关,为更加准确地分析单晶高温热端部件的寿命,确定滑移系族开动类型至关重要。     

一种镍基双晶材料疲劳裂纹扩展效应

对晶界平行裂纹和晶界垂直裂纹的双晶体进行三点弯曲疲劳实验，研究了双晶材料的疲劳裂纹扩展规律，测定了双晶的疲劳扩展速率，揭示了晶界对晶粒疲劳裂纹扩展的屏蔽效应：当裂纹距晶界某一特定长度时，裂纹扩展速率最快；而裂纹顶端交于晶界时，裂纹扩展速率最侵．进一步的晶体滑移有限元数值分析揭示了这种屏蔽效应的机理：晶界附近不协调的塑性变形，导致了裂纹尖端应力场的重新分布．     

基于晶体塑性理论的孔洞生长行为研究

采用率相关晶体塑性模型,建立三维胞元计算模型,研究了晶粒取向和晶界对孔洞生长和聚合的影响.比较了不同晶粒取向的单晶和双晶体中孔洞的生长趋势,发现晶粒取向对孔洞生长方向,孔洞形状等有着显著的影响.     

各向异性双晶和三晶体弹塑性应力场分析

用三维弹塑性晶体滑移有限元程序对不同晶体取向的双昌和三晶体在昌界和三晶交点处的应力集中科技司和滑激活规律进行了计算分析。双晶体在计算时考虑取向的影响,计算结果表明,晶界处应力有较大的出现复杂的变化规律,这种规律与晶体取向相关;三晶交点和晶界使得三晶体应力重新分布,三晶交点可能是应力集中之地,但也可能不造成应力集中,这主要与三个晶体取向相关。本文计算表明,只有仔细地研究细观过程,才能准确理解金属材料     

考虑两种晶界的各向异性双晶和三晶体晶界附近弹塑性应力场分析

采用率相关的晶体滑移有限元程序对具有不同晶体取向的双晶体晶界附近及三晶体三晶粒交汇处的弹塑性应力场进行了计算,考虑了几何晶界和物理晶界的影响.计算结果表明:双晶体及三晶体考虑几何晶界和物理晶界时,这两种晶界具有相同的应力分布趋势,只是物理晶界比几何晶界的应力集中程度小,双晶体晶界附近有较大的应力梯度,存在应力集中现象.三晶体三晶粒交汇处可能是应力集中之地也可能不造成应力集中,这主要取决于晶粒晶体取向及加载方向.由此可见,要准确理解金属材料的断裂过程,还需要从细观的角度对晶界的力学响应进行细致和深入的研究.     

单晶高温材料中铸造微孔洞的扩长

基于有限变形晶体塑性本构关系及三维体胞模型,采用有限元的方法,分析了在不同应力三维度、不同罗德参数、不同滑移系开动及不同加载取向下,单晶高温合金中铸造微孔洞扩长的力学行为。分析结果表明:累积剪切应变在铸造微孔洞的扩长中起着很重要的作用,大的累积剪切应变对应高含量的铸造微孔洞;开动滑移系族的类型对铸造微孔扩长的影响不容忽视,故准确的确定开动滑移系的类型,对于评估单晶热端部件的寿命至关重要。由于不同的取向具有不同的Schmid因子、弹性模量及开动滑移系,单晶高温合金中的铸造微孔洞的扩长还与取向密切相关,因此根据热端部件工况,合理的选择其取向是有必要的。     

双晶体的取向因子

本文通过对双晶体应力分析，提出了双晶体的取向因子ΩＢ，与其组元单晶体Ｇ１，Ｇ２的Ｓｃｈｍｉｄ因子Ω１及Ω２的关系为ΩＢ＝ＶＧ１Ω１＋ＶＧ２Ω２－１．并借助于双晶体的取向因子ΩＢ来比较单晶体与双晶体塑性变形行为的差别，以确定晶界对滑移带开动的晶界阻力．     

镁合金晶体塑性本构模型与非均匀孪生变形分析

微结构演化对镁合金材料力学性能有着显著的影响，为了揭示镁合金宏观塑性各向异性特性与非均匀孪生变形的关系，开展了不同路径下的单轴加载试验以及采用含滑移、孪生机制的晶体塑性本构模型对试验条件下的镁合金变形行为进行数值模拟研究。文中本构模型描述了滑移与孪生变形机制以及晶格转动的机制，同时研究采用三维微结构代表性有限元模型，其包含晶粒尺寸、晶向和晶界倾角等微结构参数。研究结果表明，轧制镁合金具有强烈的宏观塑性各向异性行为，并对这种镁合金塑性各向异性行为的模拟结果以及多晶织构的模拟演化结果与试验测量进行对比，结果都基本吻合。对孪生非均匀变形模拟分析表明，镁合金宏观塑性各向异性行为与滑移、孪生变形机制的不同启动组合紧密相关，同时多晶体内应力的非均匀分布受到孪生变形的严重影响。而不同晶粒尺寸的晶粒所发生的孪生变形有比较大的差异，造成孪晶变体在晶粒内的分布极不均匀。本研究可为通过微结构的合理配置来设计和控制材料的力学性能提供理论依据.     

A coupled kinetic-constitutive approach to the study of high temperature crack initiation in single crystal nickel-base superalloys

A rate-dependent crystallographic constitutive theory coupled with a mass diffusion model has been used to study crack initiation in single crystal nickel-base superalloys, exposed to an oxidising environment and subjected to mechanical loading. The time to crack initiation under constant load has been predicted using a strain-based failure criterion. A notched compact tension (CT) specimen containing a single casting defect, idealised as a cylindrical void close to the notch surface, has been studied. Finite element analysis of the CT specimen revealed that, due to the strong localisation of inelastic strain at the void, a microcrack will initiate in the vicinity of the void rather than at the notch surface. The numerical results have also shown that the time to crack initiation depends strongly on the void location. The coupled diffusion-deformation studies have revealed that environmental effects reduce the time to crack initiation due to the oxidation-induced material softening in the vicinity of the notch and void. The applicability of a failure assessment approach, based on the linear elastic stress intensity factor, K, to predict the crack initiation time under creep loading is examined and a probabilistic framework for prediction of component lifetime is proposed.     

Evaluation of creep damage behavior of nickel-base directionally solidified superalloys with different crystallographic orientations

A crystallographic creep damage constitutive model is developed for nickel-base directionally solidified superalloys. The rates of material degradation and grain boundary void growth are considered. The governing parameters are determined from the creep test data of single crystals and directionally solidified superalloys with a crystallographic orientation. A finite element program is used to analyze the creep damage behavior of nickel-base directionally solidified superalloys for different crystallographic orientations. The results depend on the number of grains modelled and compare well with the experimental data.     

Crystal plasticity model with enhanced hardening by geometrically necessary dislocation accumulation

A strain gradient dependent crystal plasticity approach is used to model the constitutive behaviour of polycrystal FCC metals under large plastic deformation. Material points are considered as aggregates of grains, subdivided into several fictitious grain fractions: a single crystal volume element stands for the grain interior whereas grain boundaries are represented by bi-crystal volume elements, each having the crystallographic lattice orientations of its adjacent crystals. A relaxed Taylor-like interaction law is used for the transition from the local to the global scale. It is relaxed with respect to the bi-crystals, providing compatibility and stress equilibrium at their internal interface. During loading, the bi-crystal boundaries deform dissimilar to the associated grain interior. Arising from this heterogeneity, a geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) density can be computed, which is required to restore compatibility of the crystallographic lattice. This effect provides a physically based method to account for the additional hardening as introduced by the GNDs, the magnitude of which is related to the grain size. Hence, a scale-dependent response is obtained, for which the numerical simulations predict a mechanical behaviour corresponding to the Hall-Petch effect. Compared to a full-scale finite element model reported in the literature, the present polycrystalline crystal plasticity model is of equal quality yet much more efficient from a computational point of view for simulating uniaxial tension experiments with various grain sizes.     

Meso approaches for the creep damage behavior of nickel-base directionally solidified superalloys

IntroductionNickel-basehightemperatureresistancesuperalloysarsewidelyusedingasturbinesandjetengines.DireetionallysolidificationwasintroducedtoenhancecreepsbengthbyelindnahnggrainboundariesnormaltotheappliedstresswherevoidsarelikelytOoccurundercreepload.Inpractice,however,theappliedstressmaynotbeuniaxialnordirectedparalleltOthegrainboundaries.Singlecrystalswerethusdeveloped.CongregationoflowtempefAnremeltingelementsongrainboundaries,grainboundaryoxidation)etc.,areadditionalfactorsthatwoulddeg…     

Creep,plasticity, and fatigue of single crystal superalloy

Single crystal components in gas turbine engines are subject to such extreme temperatures and stresses that life prediction becomes highly inaccurate resulting in components that can only be shown to meet their requirements through experience. Reliable life prediction methodologies are required both for design and life management. In order to address this issue we have developed a thermo-viscoplastic constitutive model for single crystal materials. Our incremental large strain formulation additively decomposes the inelastic strain rate into components along the octahedral and cubic slip planes. We have developed a crystallographic-based creep constitutive model able to predict sigmoidal creep behavior of Ni base superalloys. Inelastic shear rate along each slip system is expressed as a sum of a time dependent creep component and a rate independent plastic component. We develop a new robust, computationally efficient rate-independent crystal plasticity approach and combined it with creep flow rule calibrated for Ni-based superalloys. The transient variation of each of the inelastic components includes a back stress for kinematic hardening and latent hardening parameters to account for the stress evolution with inelastic strain as well as the evolution for dislocation densities. The complete formulation accurately predicts both monotonic and cyclic tests at different crystallographic orientations for constant and variable temperature conditions (low cycle fatigue (LCF) and thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) tests). Based on the test and modeling results we formulate a new life prediction criterion suitable for both LCF and TMF conditions.     

Mechanics modeling for deformation of nano-grained metals

The electro-deposition technique is capable of producing nano-grained bulk copper specimens that exhibit superplastic extensibility at room temperature. Metals of such small grain sizes deform by grains squeezing past each other, with little distortion occurring in the grain cores. Accommodation mechanisms such as grain boundary diffusion and grain rotation control the kinetics of the process. A model of a 9-grain cluster is proposed that incorporates both the Ashby-Verrall mechanism and the 30° rotation of closely linked grain pairs. A constitutive relation is derived that relates the creep strain rate linearly to the difference between the applied stress and a threshold stress. The creep rate and the threshold stress predicted by the model are in quantitative agreement with the experimental data.     

单晶与纳米多晶锡层裂的分子动力学研究

低熔点金属的层裂是目前延性金属动态断裂的基础科学问题之一。采用非平衡态分子动力学方法模拟了冲击压力在13.5～61.0 GPa下单晶和纳米多晶锡的经典层裂和微层裂过程。研究结果表明：在加载阶段，冲击速度不影响单晶模型中的波形演化规律，但影响纳米多晶模型中的波形演化规律，其中经典层裂中晶界滑移是影响应力波前沿宽度的重要因素；在单晶模型中，经典层裂和微层裂中孔洞成核位置位于高势能处；在纳米多晶模型中，经典层裂中的孔洞多在晶界（含三晶界交界处）处成核，并沿晶定向长大，产生沿晶断裂，而微层裂中孔洞在晶界和晶粒内部成核，导致沿晶断裂、晶内断裂和穿晶断裂；孔洞体积分数呈现指数增长，相同冲击速度下单晶和纳米多晶Sn孔洞体积分数变化规律一致；经典层裂中孔洞体积分数曲线的两个转折点分别表示孔洞成核与长大的过渡和材料从损伤到断裂的灾变性转变。     

A unified constitutive model for superalloys

A physically based unified constitutive model is presented for an aircraft engine nickelbase superalloy. The model accounts for deformation modes that can be activated under different stress, time, and temperature combinations. Two internal state variables and a flow function have been utilized to prdict strain rate sensitivity, stress hold creep, strain hold relaxation, monotonic loading, cyclic loading, and thermal mechanical cycling. In the model flow function, creep deformation and plasticity deformation modes have been incorporated over a wide range of temperatures (0.4 < T/T_melt < 0.75). The model is checked with independent isothermal and thermal mechanical experiments. Different temperature ranges are explored to assess model capabilities.     

Multiaxial creep and cyclic plasticity in nickel-base superalloy C263

Physically-based constitutive equations for uniaxial creep deformation in nickel alloy C263 [Acta Mater. 50 (2002) 2917] have been generalised for multiaxial stress states using conventional von Mises type assumptions. A range of biaxial creep tests have been carried out on nickel alloy C263 in order to investigate the stress state sensitivity of creep damage evolution. The sensitivity has been quantified in C263 and embodied within the creep constitutive equations for this material. The equations have been implemented into finite element code. The resulting computed creep behaviour for a range of stress state compares well with experimental results. Creep tests have been carried out on double notched bar specimens over a range of nominal stress. The effect of the notches is to introduce multiaxial stress states local to the notches which influences creep damage evolution. Finite element models of the double notch bar specimens have been developed and used to test the ability of the model to predict correctly, or otherwise, the creep rupture lifetimes of components in which multiaxial stress states exist. Reasonable comparisons with experimental results are achieved. The γ^′ solvus temperature of C263 is about 925 °C, so that thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) loading in which the temperature exceeds the solvus leads to the dissolution of the γ^′ precipitate, and a resulting solution treated material. The cyclic plasticity and creep behaviour of the solution treated material is quite different to that of the material with standard heat treatment. A time-independent cyclic plasticity model with kinematic and isotropic hardening has been developed for solution treated and standard heat treated nickel-base superalloy C263. It has been combined with the physically-based creep model to provide constitutive equations for TMF in C263 over the temperature range 20–950 °C, capable of predicting deformation and life in creep cavitation-dominated TMF failure.     

Constitutive relation for rheological processes: Properties of theoretic creep curves and simulation of memory decay

We study the nonlinear stress-strain constitutive relation proposed earlier for describing one-dimensional isothermal rheological processes in the case of monotonous variation of the strain (in particular, viscoplasticity, creep, relaxation, plasticity, and superplasticity). This relation contains integral time operators of the strain and strain rate, which are the norms in the Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces equipped with special weight factors, one material function, and nine material parameters determined by the results of tests of the material for relaxation, creep, long-term strength, and constant-rate strain.We analytically inverse the constitutive relation and study the properties of the inverse operator. We derive the equation of creep curves corresponding to an arbitrary law of loading at the stage of passing from the zero stress to a given constant level. We study their dependence on the material parameters and the loading stage characteristics and find restrictions on the material parameters which ensure that the asymptotic behavior of the creep curves for large times is independent of the length of the loading stage and the specific law of stress variation during this stage, i.e., we find the conditions of the model memory decay in creep. Thus we have proved that the constitutive relation proposed above can adequately model both creep and the effect of the material memory decay.