A novel grain cluster-based homogenization scheme

An efficient homogenization scheme, termed the relaxed grain cluster (RGC), for elasto-plastic deformations of polycrystals is presented. The scheme is based on a generalization of the grain cluster concept. A volume element consisting of eight (= 2 × 2 × 2) hexahedral grains is considered. The kinematics of the RGC scheme is formulated within a finite deformation framework, where the relaxation of the local deformation gradient of each individual grain is connected to the overall deformation gradient by the, so-called, interface relaxation vectors. The set of relaxation vectors is determined by the minimization of the constitutive energy (or work) density of the overall cluster. An additional energy density associated with the mismatch at the grain boundaries due to relaxations is incorporated as a penalty term into the energy minimization formulation. Effectively, this penalty term represents the kinematical condition of deformation compatibility at the grain boundaries.Simulations have been performed for a dual-phase grain cluster loaded in uniaxial tension. The results of the simulations are presented and discussed in terms of the effective stress–strain response and the overall deformation anisotropy as functions of the penalty energy parameters. In addition, the prediction of the RGC scheme is compared with predictions using other averaging schemes, as well as to the result of direct finite element (FE) simulation. The comparison indicates that the present RGC scheme is able to approximate FE simulation results of relatively fine discretization at about three orders of magnitude lower computational cost.

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