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Article Citation - WoS: 12Citation - Scopus: 16Misorientation and Grain Boundary Orientation Dependent Grain Boundary Response in Polycrystalline Plasticity(Springer, 2021) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Özdemir, İzzet; Tandoğan, İzzet TarıkThis paper studies the evolution of intergranular localization and stress concentration in three dimensional micron sized specimens through the Gurtin grain boundary model (J Mech Phys Solids 56:640-662, 2008) incorporated into a three dimensional higher-order strain gradient crystal plasticity framework (Yalcinkaya et al. in Int J Solids Struct 49:2625-2636, 2012). The study addresses continuum scale dislocation-grain boundary interactions where the effect of crystal orientation mismatch and grain boundary orientation are taken into account through the grain boundary model in polycrystalline metallic specimens. Due to the higher-order nature of the model, a mixed finite element formulation is used to discretize the problem in which both displacements and plastic slips are considered as primary variables. For the treatment of grain boundaries within the solution algorithm, an interface element is formulated and implemented together with the bulk plasticity model. The capabilities of the framework is demonstrated through 3D polycrystalline examples considering grain boundary conditions, grain boundary strength, the orientation distribution and the specimen size. A detailed grain boundary condition and stress concentration analysis is presented. The advantages and the disadvantages of the model is discussed in detail through numerical examples.Article Citation - WoS: 32Citation - Scopus: 37Void Growth Based Inter-Granular Ductile Fracture in Strain Gradient Polycrystalline Plasticity(Elsevier, 2021) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Tandoğan, İzzet Tarık; Özdemir, İzzetThe precipitation hardened, high strength aerospace alloys (e.g. Al 7000 alloy series) suffer from loss of fracture toughness due to the heat treatment leading to intergranular ductile fracture. Depending on the quenching and aging processes, large precipitates at the grain boundaries with wide precipitate free zones might develop. Therefore the grain boundaries constitute a potential location for micro void formation and evolution under the effect of external loads. This is a common problem of such materials where there is considerable ductile intergranular fracture, which is normally attributed to the embrittlement effects of the environment in other type of alloys. In this context, for the modeling of such a degradation process, the current paper develops a physics based intergranular cracking model of polycrystalline materials where a strain gradient crystal plasticity model is combined with cohesive zone elements whose traction separation relation is based on the evolution of micro-voids at the grain boundaries. The framework successfully predicts the intergranular crack formation and propagation, taking into account different microstructural features, such as porosity, pore shape, grain orientation distribution, and grain boundary conditions.Article Citation - WoS: 22Citation - Scopus: 29Inter-Granular Cracking Through Strain Gradient Crystal Plasticity and Cohesive Zone Modeling Approaches(Elsevier, 2019) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Özdemir, İzzet; Fırat, Ali OsmanEven though intergranular fracture is generally regarded as a macroscopically brittle mechanism, there are various cases where the fracture occurs at the grain boundaries with considerable plastic deformation at the macroscopic scale. There exists several microstructural reasons for grain boundaries to host crack initiation. They can interact with impurities and defects, can provide preferential location for precipitation, can behave as a source of dislocations and can impede the movement of dislocations as well. The understanding of the crack initiation and propagation at the grain boundaries requires the analysis of the grain boundary orientation and the orientation mismatch between the neighboring grains and the related the stress concentration, which is only possible through the combination of micro-mechanical plasticity and fracture mechanics. For this reason the current work studies the evolution of plasticity in three dimensional Voronoi based microstructures through a strain gradient crystal plasticity framework (see e.g. Yalcinkaya et al., 2011; Yalcinkaya et al., 2012; Yalcinkaya, 2016) and incorporates a potential based cohesive zone model (see Park et al., 2009; Cerrone et al., 2014) at the grain boundaries for the crack initiation and propagation. The numerical examples considers the effect of the orientation distribution, the grain boundary conditions, the specimen size and the fracture energy parameter on the intergranular fracture behavior of micron-sized specimens. The study presents important conclusions for the modeling of fracture at this length scale.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 3Micromechanical Modeling of Inter-Granular Localization, Damage and Fracture(Elsevier, 2018) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Özdemir, İzzet; Fırat, Ali Osman; Tandoğan, İzzet TarıkThe recent developments in the production of miniaturized devices increases the demand on micro-components where the thickness ranges from tens to hundreds of microns. Various challenges, such as size effect and stress concentrations at the grain boundaries, arise due to the deformation heterogeneity observed at grain scale. Various metallic alloys, e.g. aluminum, exhibit substantial localization and stress concentration at the grain boundaries. In this regard, inter-granular damage evolution, crack initiation and propagation becomes an important failure mechanism at this length scale. Crystal plasticity approach captures intrinsically the heterogeneity developing due to grain orientation mismatch. However, the commonly used local versions do not possess a specific GB model and leads to jumps at the boundaries. Therefore, a more physical treatment of grain boundaries is needed. For this purpose, in this work, the Gurtin GB model (Gurtin (2008)) is incorporated into a strain gradient crystal plasticity framework (Yalcinkaya et al. (2011), Yalcinkaya et al. (2012), Yalcinkaya (2017)), where the intensity of the localization and stress concentration could be modelled considering the effect of grain boundary orientation, the mismatch and the strength of the GB. A zero thickness 12-node interface element for the integration of the grain boundary contribution and a 10-node coupled finite element for the bulk response are developed and implemented in Abaqus software as user element subroutines. 3D grain microstructure is created through Voronoi tessellation and the interface elements are automatically inserted between grains. After obtaining the localization, the mechanical behavior of the GB is modelled through incorporation of a potential based cohesive zone model (see Park et al. (2009), Cerrone et al. (2014)). The numerical examples present the performance of the developed tool for the intrinsic localization, crack initiation and propagation in micron-sized specimens. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 4Strain gradient crystal plasticity: Intergranularmicrostructure formation(Springer, 2019) Özdemir, İzzet; Yalçınkaya, TuncayThis chapter addresses the formation and evolution of inhomogeneous plastic deformation field between grains in polycrystalline metals by focusing on continuum scale modeling of dislocation-grain boundary interactions within a strain gradient crystal plasticity (SGCP) framework. Thermodynamically consistent extension of a particular strain gradient plasticity model, addressed previously (see also, e.g., Yalcinkaya et al, J Mech Phys Solids 59:1-17, 2011), is presented which incorporates the effect of grain boundaries on plastic slip evolution explicitly. Among various choices, a potential-type non-dissipative grain boundary description in terms of grain boundary Burgers tensor (see, e.g., Gurtin, J Mech Phys Solids 56:640-662, 2008) is preferred since this is the essential descriptor to capture both the misorientation and grain boundary orientation effects. A mixed finite element formulation is used to discretize the problem in which both displacements and plastic slips are considered as primary variables. For the treatment of grain boundaries within the solution algorithm, an interface element is formulated. The capabilities of the framework is demonstrated through 3D bicrystal and polycrystal examples, and potential extensions and currently pursued multi-scale modeling efforts are briefly discussed in the closure. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 22Citation - Scopus: 27Micromechanical Modeling of Intrinsic and Specimen Size Effects in Microforming(Springer Verlag, 2018) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Özdemir, İzzet; Simonovski, IgorSize effect is a crucial phenomenon in the microforming processes of metallic alloys involving only limited amount of grains. At this scale intrinsic size effect arises due to the size of the grains and the specimen/statistical size effect occurs due to the number of grains where the properties of individual grains become decisive on the mechanical behavior of the material. This paper deals with the micromechanical modeling of the size dependent plastic response of polycrystalline metallic materials at micron scale through a strain gradient crystal plasticity framework. The model is implemented into a Finite Element software as a coupled implicit user element subroutine where the plastic slip and displacement fields are taken as global variables. Uniaxial tensile tests are conducted for microstructures having different number of grains with random orientations in plane strain setting. The influence of the grain size and number on both local and macroscopic behavior of the material is investigated. The attention is focussed on the effect of the grain boundary conditions, deformation rate and the grain size on the mechanical behavior of micron sized specimens. The model is intrinsically capable of capturing both experimentally observed phenomena thanks to the incorporated internal length scale and the crystallographic orientation definition of each grain.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2Three Dimensional Grain Boundary Modeling in Polycrystalline Plasticity(American Institute of Physics, 2018) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Özdemir, İzzet; Fırat, Ali OsmanAt grain scale, polycrystalline materials develop heterogeneous plastic deformation fields, localizations and stress concentrations due to variation of grain orientations, geometries and defects. Development of inter-granular stresses due to misorientation are crucial for a range of grain boundary (GB) related failure mechanisms, such as stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and fatigue cracking. Local crystal plasticity finite element modelling of polycrystalline metals at micron scale results in stress jumps at the grain boundaries. Moreover, the concepts such as the transmission of dislocations between grains and strength of the grain boundaries are not included in the modelling. The higher order strain gradient crystal plasticity modelling approaches offer the possibility of defining grain boundary conditions. However, these conditions are mostly not dependent on misorientation of grains and can define only extreme cases. For a proper definition of grain boundary behavior in plasticity, a model for grain boundary behavior should be incorporated into the plasticity framework. In this context, a particular grain boundary model ([l]) is incorporated into a strain gradient crystal plasticity framework ([2]). In a 3-D setting, both bulk and grain boundary models are implemented as user-defined elements in Abaqus. The strain gradient crystal plasticity model works in the bulk elements and considers displacements and plastic slips as degree of freedoms. Interface elements model the plastic slip behavior, yet they do not possess any kind of mechanical cohesive behavior. The physical aspects of grain boundaries and the performance of the model are addressed through numerical examples.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Intrinsic and Statistical Size Effects in Microforming(American Institute of Physics, 2017) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Demirci, Aytekin; Simonovski, Igor; Özdemir, İzzetThis paper analyzes the intrinsic (grain size dependent) and the statistical (grain number and orientation distribution dependent) size effects of micron level polycrystalline metallic specimens under plastic deformation through a strain gradient crystal plasticity framework. The macroscopic and local behavior of specimens from very limited number of grains to high number of grains are studied and the results are discussed in detail taking into account different boundary conditions.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 5Micromechanical Modelling of Size Effects in Microforming(Elsevier Ltd., 2017) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Demirci, Aytekin; Simonovski, Igor; Özdemir, İzzetThis paper deals with the micromechanical modelling of the size dependent mechanical response of polycrystalline metallic materials at micron scale through a strain gradient crystal plasticity framework. The model is implemented into a Finite Element software as a coupled implicit user element subroutine where the plastic slip and displacement fields are taken as global variables. Uniaxial tensile tests are conducted for microstructures having different number of grains with random orientations in plane strain setting. The influence of the grain size and number on both local and macroscopic behavior of the material is investigated. The model is capable of capturing both size effect due to statistical distribution of the grains and their size taking into account the grain boundary conditions.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Strain Gradient Polycrystal Plasticity for Micro-Forming(American Institute of Physics, 2016) Yalçınkaya, Tuncay; Simonovski, Igor; Özdemir, İzzetThe developments in the micro-device industry has produced a substantial demand for the miniaturized metallic components with ultra-thin sheet materials that have thickness dimensions on the order of 50-500 μm which are produced through micro-forming processes. It is essential to have predictive tools to simulate the constitutive behavior of the materials at this length scale taking into account the physical and statistical size effect. Recent studies have shown that on the scale of several micrometers and below, crystalline materials behave differently from their bulk equivalent due to micro-structural effects (e.g. grain size, lattice defects and impurities), gradient effects (e.g. lattice curvature due to a non-uniform deformation field) and surface constraints (e.g. hard coatings or free interfaces). These effects could lead to stronger or weaker material response depending on the size and unique micro-structural features of the material. In this paper a plastic slip based strain gradient crystal plasticity model is used to address the effect of microstructural features (e.g. grain size, orientation and the number of grains) on the macroscopic constitutive response and the local behavior of polycrystalline materials.