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Experiment and non-local crystal plasticity finite element study of nanoindentation on Al-8Ce-10Mg alloy

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2021.111233

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Al-Ce-Mg alloys; Nanoindentation; Crystal plasticity; Geometrically necessary dislocations

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In this study, nanoindentation experiments and crystal plasticity finite element model were used to investigate the single-crystal properties and sensitivity of parameters of cerium and magnesium strengthened aluminum alloys. Satisfactory matching between experiment and simulation was obtained for each individual grain. The dependence of hardness on indent depth, as well as the effect of grain orientation and neighboring grains to nanoindentation behavior, were discussed.
Cerium and magnesium strengthened aluminum alloys, or Al-Ce-Mg, is a recently developed alloy family that exhibits good mechanical properties at elevated temperatures (similar to 300 degrees C). To examine the single-crystal properties of Al-Ce-Mg alloys, nanoindentation experiments are conducted in this study. A crystal plasticity finite element model (CPFEM) with the evolution of geometrically necessary dislocations (GNDs) is applied to simulate the indentation in individual grains. A parametric study is carried out to investigate the sensitivity of each crystal plasticity model parameter to the indentation behavior. The highly sensitive parameters are calibrated by matching the indentation load-depth curves, while the rest parameters are obtained from bulk polycrystal uniaxial tension tests. Overall, satisfactory matching between experiment and simulation is obtained for each individual grain. The calculated hardness, as determined from the experiment, shows the dependence on indent depth, which is captured by the GND model. Furthermore, the effect of grain orientation and neighboring grains to nanoindentation behavior have been discussed with the comparison between the simulation and experiments.

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