Extending intergranular normal-stress distributions using symmetries of linear-elastic polycrystalline materials

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Main Author: Shawish, S. El
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contents Intergranular normal stresses (INS) are critical in the initiation and evolution of grain boundary damage in polycrystalline materials. To model the effects of such microstructural damage on a macroscopic scale, knowledge of INS is usually required statistically at each representative volume element subjected to various loading conditions. However, calculating INS distributions for different stress states can be cumbersome and time-consuming. This study proposes a new method to extend the existing INS distributions to arbitrary loading conditions using the symmetries of a polycrystalline material composed of randomly oriented linear-elastic grains with arbitrary lattice symmetry. The method relies on a fact that INS distributions can be accurately reproduced from the first (typically) ten statistical moments, which depend trivially on just three stress invariants and a few material invariants due to assumed isotropy and material linearity of the polycrystalline model. While these material invariants are complex averages, they can be extracted numerically from a few existing INS distributions and tabulated for later use. Practically, only three such INS distributions at properly selected loadings are required to provide all relevant material invariants for the first 11 statistical moments, which can then be used to reconstruct the INS distribution for arbitrary loading conditions. The proposed approach is demonstrated to be accurate and feasible for an arbitrarily selected linear-elastic material under various loading conditions.
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spellingShingle Extending intergranular normal-stress distributions using symmetries of linear-elastic polycrystalline materials
Shawish, S. El
Materials Science
Classical Physics
Intergranular normal stresses (INS) are critical in the initiation and evolution of grain boundary damage in polycrystalline materials. To model the effects of such microstructural damage on a macroscopic scale, knowledge of INS is usually required statistically at each representative volume element subjected to various loading conditions. However, calculating INS distributions for different stress states can be cumbersome and time-consuming. This study proposes a new method to extend the existing INS distributions to arbitrary loading conditions using the symmetries of a polycrystalline material composed of randomly oriented linear-elastic grains with arbitrary lattice symmetry. The method relies on a fact that INS distributions can be accurately reproduced from the first (typically) ten statistical moments, which depend trivially on just three stress invariants and a few material invariants due to assumed isotropy and material linearity of the polycrystalline model. While these material invariants are complex averages, they can be extracted numerically from a few existing INS distributions and tabulated for later use. Practically, only three such INS distributions at properly selected loadings are required to provide all relevant material invariants for the first 11 statistical moments, which can then be used to reconstruct the INS distribution for arbitrary loading conditions. The proposed approach is demonstrated to be accurate and feasible for an arbitrarily selected linear-elastic material under various loading conditions.
title Extending intergranular normal-stress distributions using symmetries of linear-elastic polycrystalline materials
topic Materials Science
Classical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10279