Compartmentalized model for the mechanical behavior of titanium.
Résumé
A close look on materials (especially metals) reveals, without surprise, discontinuities that can easily be qualified as strong. Dislocations, structures formed by these dislocations, phases and grains are all discontinuities, thus they are also sources of heterogeneity with effects on material behavior that are not really well reproduced by a model based on a continuity assessment. Consequently, materials should be considered as a set of compartments with different behaviors. This promotes an alternative way to define models. A coherent modeling process is probably the integration of different behaviors of material compartments within the global model. The objective is here to build an efficient elasto(visco)plastic model of mechanical behavior of titanium combining compartmentalized behaviors. After setting the frame of this study, which is of primary importance, the proposed modeling process is running as follows (i) to choose a local behavior, (ii) to identify the parameters of crystalline texture that must be integrated into the simulation and (iii) finally to formulate a way of combining local compartments behaviors. The intrinsic properties of Finite Element codes are used to achieve the integration of the whole system. Usual mechanical frame for structural analysis of material