Rate-independent crystalline and polycrystalline plasticity, application to FCC materials (Q1568156)

This paper deals with the simulation of mechanical response and texture evolution of cubic crystals and polycrystals with a rate-independent elastic-plastic constitutive law. No viscous effects are considered. The authors introduce an algorithm to treat the difficult case of multi-surface plasticity. This algorithm allows the computation of mechanical response of single crystal. The corresponding yield surface is represented as intersection of several hyperplanes in stress space, and then the problem of multiplicity of slip systems is solved by a pseudo-inversion method. Self- and latent hardening are taken into account. In order to compute the response of a polycrystal, the authors use the Taylor homogenization scheme.