A DISLOCATION BASED MODEL FOR THE WORK （基于位错模型工作）.pdf

PAPER 6 Yngve Bergström February 2011 ___________________________________________________________________________ A DISLOCATION BASED MODEL FOR THE WORK HARDENING BEHAVIOUR OF DUAL PHASE STEELS INTRODUCTION The properties of DP steels are characterized by a low yield strength due to the absence of Lüders bands and a high rate of work hardening, which results in a high tensile strength and good formability (1). DP steels also show a high energy absorbing ability which implies a good crashworthiness (2–5). The explanation to the materials behaviour is to be found in the microstructure, which in DP steels mainly consists of two phases: ferrite and martensite. Over the years many attempts have been made to describe the stress-strain behaviour of DP steels (6-10). In most cases empirical relationships have been applied but also physically based models have been developed. One frequently used concept is the Ashby-model (11) which is based on the assumption that the dislocations may be divided into two types: statistically stored (SSD) and geometrically necessary dislocations (GND) with pile ups of dislocations in arrays. The latter type of dislocations are supposed to eliminate stress concentrations and strain gradients originating from differences in hardness between the ferrite and martensite phases. Unfortunately, these arrays have never been observed in high stacking fault materials like ferrite suggesting that this type of explanation is not applicable to steel (12). A large number of strain gradient plasticity (SGP) theories have also been proposed with moderate success. It is quite obvious, therefore, that a new simple physically based dislocation theory for the stress-strain behaviour of DP steels is needed. It is also obvious that such a theory must be based on the in-homogeneous behaviour of the plastic deformation process involved in this type