Efficient and accurate two-scale simulation of non-linear heterogeneous microstructures

This work is concerned with the development of an efficient two-scale numerical scheme for the prediction of the local and effective mechanical response of heterogeneous materials with non-linear constitutive behavior. In order to ensure both, accurate micromechanical fields and feasible overall CPU-times, an efficient but rather simple solution scheme is proposed. Its capabilities are demonstrated using the FE-FFT method 2,3] for the solution of simple two-scale problems. As an example, two-dimensional polycrystalline microstructures with an elasto-viscoplastic constitutive law are considered. (© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)