Calculation of intergranular stresses based on a large-strain viscoplastic self-consistent polycrystal model

We present here an extension of the viscoplastic self-consistent (VPSC) polycrystal model for the calculation of the intergranular Cauchy stresses in an aggregate. This method, which is based on the self-consistent treatment of incompressible aggregates proposed in 1987 by Molinari et al, is formulated using the inclusion formalism and full anisotropy is incorporated into it. The complete stress state in the grains is obtained by computing the deviatoric and the hydrostatic local deviations with respect to the overall corresponding magnitudes applied to the polycrystal. The extended VPSC model, followed by an elastic self-consistent unloading, is used to obtain the intergranular residual strains in the aggregate after large plastic deformation. The texture evolution and the hardening of the material are explicitly taken into account in the model. As an application, the model is used to predict intergranular residual states in Incoloy-800 plate after uniaxial deformation.

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