Physics-Based Flow Stress Model for Alloy 718

A dislocation density-based model for alloy 718 in the annealed state is proposed in order to accurately describe the deformation behavior of this alloy for a wide range of thermo-mechanical loadings. The model accounts for numerous microstructural mechanisms, including strain hardening, grain size effect, dynamic strain aging (DSA), solid solution strengthening, as well as phonon and electron drag which affects dislocation movements at high strain rates. Two types of recovery mechanisms are also included: recovery due to dislocation glide and recovery associated with cross-slip of screw dislocations. The model is calibrated using experimentally determined stress-strain curves for both low and high strain rates in the order of 10(-3) to 10(3) s(-1), and for temperatures in the range 20 degrees C to 800 degrees C. The stress-strain data computed with the model are in good agreement with the experimental data. The inclusion of DSA is found to be effective in the combination of temperatures and strain rates corresponding to experimental observations. The solid solution strengthening contribution increases with decreasing temperature and increasing strain rate. The drag effect in the model proves to be significant only for deformation at high strain rate (similar to 10(3) s(-1)).