A Micromechanical Model of Additively Manufactured Aluminum Alloys

Abstract

A micromechanical model is developed to predict the deformation behavior of additively manufactured aluminum alloys. Three-dimensional models of grain structures typical for different microregions of the melt pool are generated by the step-by-step packing method. A crystal plasticity-based constitutive model accounting for the elastic-plastic anisotropy of face-centered cubic crystals is employed to simulate the microscale deformation in an additively manufactured aluminum alloy under loading. The grain shape and texture effects on the plastic strain localization patterns are analyzed.