A Multiscale Model to Incorporate Texture Evolution into Phenomenological Plasticity Models

Crystal plasticity is a micromechanics-based model that is regularly used to simulate plastic spin during large deformation. Although crystal plasticity can provide an accurate description of local deformation behaviour, it is often computationally expensive and usually replaced by flow rule-based phenomenological models that do not capture this phenomenon. This work presents a phenomenological-based texture evolution (PBTE) model that allows for the enhancement of flow rule-based models to capture microstructural spin in a phenomenological manner. A numerical framework is presented for generating and calibrating the microstructural evolution for the PBTE model using crystal plasticity. The PBTE Model is calibrated and employed to predict the macroscopic mechanical response and the generated microstructural spin for single crystal FCC cube during non-proportional strain paths. (paper)