Assessment of crystal plasticity based calculation of the lattice spin of polycrystalline metals for FE implementation

When texture is incorporated in the finite element simulation of a metal forming process. much computer time can be saved by replacing continuous texture and corresponding yield locus updates by intermittent updates after strain intervals of e.g. 20%. The hypothesis that the evolution of the anisotropic properties of a polycrystalline material during such finite interval of plastic deformation can be modelled by just rotating the initial texture instead of continuously updating it by means of a polycrystal deformation model is tested in this work. Two spins for rotating the frame have been assessed. the classical rigid body spin and a crystal plasticity based "Mandel spin" (calculated from the rotated initial texture) which is the average of the spins of all the crystal lattices of the polycrystal. Each of these methods was used to study the evolution of the yield locus and the r-value distribution during the 20% strain interval. The results were compared to those obtained by simulating the texture evolution continuously using a polycrystal deformation model. When the texture was nor updated during deformation, it was found that for most initial textures the Mandel spin does not perform better than the rigid body spin, except For some special initial textures for which the Mandel spin is much better. The latter ones are textures which are almost stable for the corresponding strain mode. When the texture was updated after each strain interval of e.g. 20% the Mandel spin performed much better than the rigid body spin. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.