Size effect in polycrystal plasticity

2017-09-05
The demand for the micro scale forming and therefore the improvement in the micro manufacturing technologies increased substantially in many industry clusters in the recent years. During these processes the parts with the dimensions in submillimetre scale are fabricated through micro-scaled plastic deformation. Even though there have been various classical theories developed for the modelling of macro scale deformation during conventional metal forming, it is still a challenge to establish models taking into account the size effect due to the microstructural and the statistical phenomena at small length scales. Recent studies have shown that on the scale of several micrometres and below, crystalline materials behave differently from their bulk equivalent due to micro-structural effects (e.g. grain size, lattice defects and impurities), gradient effects (e.g. lattice curvature due to a non-uniform deformation field) and surface constraints (e.g. hard coatings or free interfaces). These effects could lead to stronger or weaker material response depending on the size and unique micro-structural features of the material. Moreover, as the size goes down statistical size effect comes into play as well. The number of grains is restricted where the behaviour of the individual grains become more decisive on the macroscopic response. Current paper studies both the intrinsic and the statistical size effects through a strain gradient polycrystalline plasticity framework (see e.g. Yalcinkaya et al. 2011, Yalcinkaya et al. 2012, Klusemann and Yalcinkaya 2013) for different specimen and grain sizes using Voronoi tessellation, where the polycrystalline aggregate is generated using probability theory. The micro tensile tests for various microstructures are numerically simulated by finite element method (FEM) in Abaqus software, where the effects of different microstructural parameters, boundary conditions and loading rate are addressed numerically. Moreover, the study illustrates the diminishing statistical effect with increasing number of grains and discusses the influence of the boundary conditions and number of active slip systems.
COMPLAS 2017, (05 - 07 Eylül 2017)

Suggestions

Stochastic models in preventive maintenance policies
Gölbaşı, Onur; Demirel, Nuray (2014-07-19)
In recent decades, philosophy behind maintenance has varied consistently due to the changes in complexity of designs, advances in automation and mechanization, adaptation to the fast growing market demand, commercial computation in the sectors, and environmental issues. In mid-forties, simplicity of designs, limited maintenance opportunities, and immaturity of trade culture made enough to perform only fix it when it broke approach, i.e. corrective maintenance, after failures. Last quarter of the 21th centur...
Capacity and tool allocation problem in flexible manufacturing systems
Bilgin, Selin; Azizoğlu, Meral (2005-12-01)
In this study, we consider capacity and tool allocation problem in flexible manufacturing environments. We assign the operations having priorities and processing requirements together with their required tools to a number of parallel machines having time and tool magazine capacities. We assume the number of available tools is limited and there is no partial operation assignments. Our aim is to maximize total weight over all assignments. We show that the problem is strongly NP-hard, and develop several appro...
Hierarchical and modular control of reconfigurable manufacturing systems
Arslan, Övül; Schmidt, Klaus Verner; Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2022-2-11)
Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) were introduced as a new manufacturing concept for rapidly adjusting the production capacity and functionality of manufacturing systems. Hereby, the control of RMS requires realizing each desired configuration and changing between configurations on request, whereby a suitable design approach should scale to large-scale systems. In this thesis, we develop a controller design method for RMS that supports modular design and is scalable to RMS of large size. As the f...
Form driven adaptive, and reusable tunnel formwork for customized mass housing
Öziş, Ayşe Zeynep; Sorguç, Arzu; Department of Architecture (2021-9-09)
The recent developments with Industry 4.0 have been added new agendas and methodologies in the manufacturing and designing process. Although data-driven architecture became more common in practice, forms are still determining with fabrication limitations. While these developments are changing the architectural environment, increasing population and need for accommodation are causing standardized design production, resulting in stereotyped living areas. Although conventional typologies have been changing, mo...
Computation of supervisors for reconfigurable machine tools
Schmidt, Klaus Verner (2012-01-01)
The rapid reconfiguration of manufacturing systems is an important issue in today's manufacturing technology in order to adjust the production to varying product demands and types. In this paper, we study the control of reconfigurable machine tools (RMTs) with the aim of fast reconfiguration and an easy controller implementation. We first formulate a particular reconfiguration problem for RMTs in a discrete event system setting, and then provide necessary and sufficient conditions for its solution. Moreover...
Citation Formats
T. Yalçınkaya, “Size effect in polycrystal plasticity,” presented at the COMPLAS 2017, (05 - 07 Eylül 2017), Barselona, İspanya, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://congress.cimne.com/complas2017/admin/files/fileabstract/a372.pdf.