“…The well known limitations (violation of equilibrium, assumptions on grains morphologies and interactions) of mean field models (Taylor (1938), Kröner (1961), Tomé (1993), Van Houtte et al (2005)) are overriden at the expense of a higher numerical cost. The unalterated growth of computing power over the last few decades has triggered an extensive use of CPFEM for various applications, in the research framework, Erieau and Rey (2004), Kim et al (2012), Khadyko et al (2015), Kim and Yoon (2015), Khan et al (2015) as well as for industrial process simulations (Kalidindi and Anand (1992), Beaudoin et al (1994), Grujicic and Batchu (2002), Li et al (2008), Rousselier et al (2009), Verma et al (2013)). A thorough review of CPFEM features, applications and challenges can be found in Roters et al (2010).…”