1992, 15(3):73-79.
Abstract:
In order to describe nonproportional cyclic plasticity of polycrystalline metallic materials, the hardening function is separated into three factors, in which,f1 is related to the hardening parameter determined by plastic strain range, and f2 and f3 are related to the change of plastic deformation path characterized by a measure of nonproportionality. The main features of this work are: (a)cyclic hardening is described by f1, and additional hardening is separated into instantaneous and hereditary one which is described by f2 and f3 respectively; (b)a general form of the evolution of f1(i= 1,2, 3) is proposed; (c)parameters a1 and a3 are introduced to keep the memory to the largest cyclic hardening and additional hardening respectively; (d)various hardening mechanisms are embedded into a thermomechanically consistent constitutive equation. The capability of the developed model is verified with the analysis of biaxially nonproportional experiments by Benallal et al, Tanaka et al and Ohashi et al.
