Multi-scale modelling of the development of heterogeneous distributions of stress, strain, deformation texture and anisotropy in sheet metal forming KU Leuven
A Finite Element (FE) method is used to simulate cup drawing of two sheet materials: a carbon steel (DC06) and an aluminium alloy (AA3103-O). The evolution of the deformation texture is simulated by the Taylor and ALAMEL models, and this in every integration point of the FE mesh. Such point is in fact treated as a representative volume element (RVE) at macro-scale, and consists of 5000 crystallites each with their own crystal orientation. Each ...