Some Issues on Crystal Plasticity Models Formulation: Motion Decomposition and Constitutive Law Variants

Abstract

In this paper, kinematic relations and constitutive laws in crystal plasticity are analyzed in the context of geometric nonlinearity description and fulfillment of thermodynamic requirements in the case of elastic deformation. We consider the most popular relations: in finite form, written in terms of the unloaded configuration, and in rate form, written in terms of the current configuration. The presence of a corotational derivative in the relations formulated in terms of the current configuration testifies to the fact that the model is based on the decomposition of motion into the deformation motion and the rigid motion of a moving coordinate system, and precisely the stress rate with respect to this coordinate system is associated with the strain rate. We also examine the relations of the mesolevel model with an explicit separation of a moving coordinate system and the elastic distortion of crystallites relative to it in the deformation gradient. These relations are compared with the above formulations, which makes it possible to determine how close they are. The results of the performed analytical calculations show the equivalence or similarity (in the sense of the response determined under the same influences) of the formulation and are supported by the results of numerical calculation. It is shown that the formulation based on the decomposition of motion with an explicit separation of the moving coordinate system motion provides a theoretical framework for the transition to a similar formulation in rate form written in terms of the current configuration. The formulation of this kind is preferable for the numerical solution of boundary value problems (in a case when the current configuration and, consequently, contact boundaries, are not known a priori) used to model the technological treatment processes.