Polycrystalline plasticity and the evolution of crystallographic texture in FCC metals

Abstract

Abstract A Taylor-type model for large deformation polycrystalline plasticity is formulated and evaluated by comparing the predictions for the evolution of crystallographic texture and the stress-strain response in simple compression and tension, plane strain compression, and simple shear of initially ‘isotropic’ OFHC copper against (a) corresponding experiments, and (b) finite element simulations of these experiments using a multitude of single crystals with accounting for the satisfaction of both compatibility and equilibrium. Our experiments and calculations show that the Taylor-type model is in reasonable first-order agreement with the experiments for the evolution of texture and the overall stress-strain response of single-phase copper. The results of the finite element calculations are in much better agreement with experiments, but at a substantially higher computational expense.