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Relating microstructure to defect behavior in AA6061 using a combined computational and multiscale electron microscopy approach

Acta Materialia

Yoo, Yung S.; Lim, Hojun L.; Emery, John M.; Kacher, Josh

In this study, a multiscale electron microscopy-based approach is applied to understanding how different aspects of the microstructure in a notched AA6061-T6, including grain boundaries, triple junctions, and intermetallic particles, promote localized dislocation accumulation as a function of applied tensile strain and depth from the sample surface. Experimental measurements and crystal plasticity simulations of dislocation distributions as a function of distance from specified microstructural features both showed preferential dislocation accumulation near intermetallic particles relative to grain boundaries and triple junctions. High resolution electron backscatter diffraction and site-specific transmission electron microscopy characterization showed that high levels of dislocation accumulation near intermetallic particles led to the development of an ultrafine sub-grain microstructure, indicative of a much higher level of local plasticity than predicted from the coarser measurements and simulations. In addition, high resolution measurements in front of a crack tip suggested a compounding influence of intermetallic particles and grain boundaries in dictating crack propagation pathways.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2019
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Predicting the reliability of an additively-manufactured metal part for the third Sandia fracture challenge by accounting for random material defects

International Journal of Fracture

Johnson, Kyle J.; Emery, John M.; Hammetter, Christopher H.; Brown, Judith A.; Grange, Spencer G.; Ford, Kurtis R.; Bishop, Joseph E.

We describe an approach to predict failure in a complex, additively-manufactured stainless steel part as defined by the third Sandia Fracture Challenge. A viscoplastic internal state variable constitutive model was calibrated to fit experimental tension curves in order to capture plasticity, necking, and damage evolution leading to failure. Defects such as gas porosity and lack of fusion voids were represented by overlaying a synthetic porosity distribution onto the finite element mesh and computing the elementwise ratio between pore volume and element volume to initialize the damage internal state variables. These void volume fraction values were then used in a damage formulation accounting for growth of these existing voids, while new voids were allowed to nucleate based on a nucleation rule. Blind predictions of failure are compared to experimental results. The comparisons indicate that crack initiation and propagation were correctly predicted, and that an initial porosity field superimposed as higher initial damage may provide a path forward for capturing material strength uncertainty. The latter conclusion was supported by predicted crack face tortuosity beyond the usual mesh sensitivity and variability in predicted strain to failure; however, it bears further inquiry and a more conclusive result is pending compressive testing of challenge-built coupons to de-convolute materials behavior from the geometric influence of significant porosity.

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