Introduction to Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Method_v3.pdf

Introduction to Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Method (CPFEM) Q. Ma, E.B. Marin The present document is an introduction manual on how to use the crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM) for materials deformation simulation. CPFEM is based on a crystal plasticity constitutive model incorporated in the UMAT user subroutine of the commercial finite element software ABAQUS 6.9. The single crystal or polycrystal of face-centered cubic (FCC), body-centered cubic (BCC) and hexagonal closed (HCP) structures will respond to an applied stress by dislocation slip which is simulated using CPFEM. Orientations of grains will rotate during deformation. At the same time, the threshold stress of each slip systems will increase because of the self-hardening and latent hardening of the deformation modes. As such, the mechanical response (stress-strain curve) and the orientation of the crystals (texture) will be captured by the CPFEM. By comparing predicted results with experiments, one can get useful information about deformation mode activation, stress-strain data and crystal re-orientations, aspects that lead to a fundamentally understanding of the nature of metal deformation at the grain scale. This particular document includes six parts as follows: a) Introduction b) Setup c) Input files d) Running CPFEM e) Output files f) References Introduction Crystal Plasticity model coded in the subroutine UMAT describes the deformation of single crystals and polycrystals assuming crystallographic slip as the main deformation mode. For a given initial texture and material parameters of the model, the code computes the stress-strain response and orientation evolution of si