Kinematic hardening rules in uncoupled modeling for multiaxial ratcheting simulation (Q5944506)

In a coupled model, the plastic modulus calculation is directly tied to the kinematic hardening rule. As a result, if all the parameters in hardening rule are calibrated from uniaxial responses, the multiaxial simulations by the coupled model suffer and vice verse. The uncoupling of plastic modulus calculation from the kinematic hardening rule allows the plastic modulus parameters to be determined from uniaxial responses and the kinematic rule parameters from multiaxial responses. These two parameter sets are uncoupled, i.e. the uniaxial simulations always remain unaffected by the selection of the kinematic hardening rule in the model. This study evaluates eight different kinematic hardening rules in order to identify or develop a kinematic hardening rule that works well with an uncoupled model for both uniaxial and multiaxial ratcheting simulation. The modified Dafalias-Popov model is used in this study. Six uniaxial and ten biaxial ratcheting responses on stabilized carbon steels are considered for the evaluation of kinematic rules. In an effort to obtain a constitutive model to simulate both uniaxial and multiaxial ratcheting, the modified Dafalias-Popov uncoupled model recognizes an essential difference in the modeling of uniaxial and multiaxial ratcheting, and separates the two cases by uncoupling the plastic modulus calculation from the kinematic hardening rule. As a result, with a suitable kinematic hardening rule (Chaboche rule in this study) whose parameters are determined from a biaxial ratcheting experiment, this uncoupled model manifests success in simulating all the ratcheting responses considered. The improvement in simulation by this model is found to be significant when the simulations are compared to those from many well-known coupled models.