In this work, a crystal elasto-viscoplastic model was modified to account for the anisotropic mechanical response of magnesium aluminum alloys. Crystal plasticity may offer new understanding of these alloys by explicitly modeling the texture development that profoundly affects the properties of magnesium. The model is able to account for the individual slip systems of both the cubic and hexagonal phases. The constants of the model were determined from published experimental AZ31 data, and the plastic hardening response is shown to match these results well using a modification to the hardening rule to approximate the kinetics of twinning. Model aggregates were created with aluminum compositions representative of common magnesium structural alloys. This approach allows the effect of varying percentage of cubic phase on the hexagonal magnesium alloy aggregate to be studied both in terms of macroscopic response and the crystallographic changes occurring within the system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MSSTATE/oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:td-2230 |
| Date | 09 August 2008 |
| Creators | Stinson, Joel H |
| Publisher | Scholars Junction |
| Source Sets | Mississippi State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
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