Modeling deformation induced textures in titanium using analytical solutions for constrained single crystal response (Q1358852)

We present a method for computing the large deformation behaviour of hexagonal close-packed polycrystalline metals. Under slip-dominated deformation conditions, these crystals are often nearly inextensible along a direction perpendicular to the base of the lattice until cell. We adopt a kinematic procedure for partitioning the macroscopic deformation among these inextensible crystals and show that a decomposition of the crystal deformation is possible which decouples the basal and prismatic shearing. We use this decoupling to reduce the problem of determining the crystal stress components to a pair of simplified two-dimensional equations for the basal and prismatic components.