Thermomechanical modeling of distortional hardening fully coupled with ductile damage under non-proportional loading paths

In order to capture, as accurately as possible, the complex physical effects during texture evolution of high strength materials subject to non-proportional loading paths at high temperature, a macroscale thermo-mechanical model is developed. This model accounts, in the framework of large inelastic strains, for anisotropic thermo-elasto-viscoplasticity with isotropic, kinematic and distortional hardenings strongly coupled with isotropic ductile damage. Following the footsteps of Francois (2001), induced anisotropy is modeled to predict the behavior under complex non-proportional loading paths. The initial plastic anisotropy and tension-compression asymmetry are considered through two different temperature dependent fourth-rank tensors. The full coupling of thermo-mechanical model with ductile damage is considered based on the total energy equivalence assumption. The proposed constitutive equations are implemented into finite element code ABAQUS/Explicit using appropriate user subroutine VUMAT. The local integration algorithm (at each Gauss point) of the developed model is based on a fully-implicit scheme. Applications have been made to three different materials (aluminum alloy AU4G T4 (2024), titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V and magnesium alloy AZ31) to demonstrate the predictive capabilities of the proposed model. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.