Material design through multi-scale simulations: Aluminum sheet forming using an anisotropic yield function coupled with crystal plasticity theory

Crystal plasticity theories have become very powerful tools in materials design since these models can account for the effects of microstructure and its evolution with deformation. Numerical modeling based on crystal plasticity theories are performed at two different scales; the microscopic scale where crystal plasticity is employed to understand the deformation mechanisms and the effects of microstructure, and at the macroscopic scale in which …