Cyclic softening behaviour of a duplex stainless steel

P EVRARD; V AUBIN; D KONDO; S DEGALLAIX; I ALVAREZ

MATERIALPRUFUNG

Carl Hanser Verlag

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2009 vol. 51 p. 354 - 358

0025-5300

This second part aims to propose an extension of the bi-phased polycrystalline model shown in a previous contribution [1], in order to simulate the cyclic softening observed in an austenitic-ferritic stainless steel under uniaxial and non-proportional biaxial cyclic loading [2]. Assuming that the cyclic softening for uniaxial and biaxial non-proportional cyclic loading is due to a rearrangement of dislocations in hard (rich in dislocations) and soft (poor in dislocations) zones in ferritic grains [3], the ferritic single crystal law is modified. The new model parameters are identified from TEM observations [3] and by inverse procedure. Finally, the new model is validated for other cyclic loading paths. A good agreement is observed between simulation and experimental data.