Designing highly ductile magnesium alloys: current status and future challenges

U Masood Chaudry, S Tekumalla, M Gupta… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In order to reduce oil consumption and avoid fossil fuel-related environmental problems,
scientists are always looking for lightweight structural materials that show high performance …

Computational homogenization of polycrystals

J Segurado, RA Lebensohn, J LLorca - Advances in Applied Mechanics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the current state of the art in the simulation of the mechanical behavior of
polycrystalline materials by means of computational homogenization. The key ingredients of …

[HTML][HTML] DAMASK–The Düsseldorf Advanced Material Simulation Kit for modeling multi-physics crystal plasticity, thermal, and damage phenomena from the single …

F Roters, M Diehl, P Shanthraj, P Eisenlohr… - Computational Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Crystal Plasticity (CP) modeling is a powerful and well established computational materials
science tool to investigate mechanical structure–property relations in crystalline materials. It …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient and robust approach to determine material parameters of crystal plasticity constitutive laws from macro-scale stress–strain curves

K Sedighiani, M Diehl, K Traka, F Roters… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A severe obstacle for the routine use of crystal plasticity models is the effort associated with
determining their constitutive parameters. Obtaining these parameters usually requires time …

Machine learning-based multi-objective optimization for efficient identification of crystal plasticity model parameters

K Veasna, Z Feng, Q Zhang, M Knezevic - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
A set of constitutive model parameters along with crystallography governs the activation of
deformation mechanisms in crystal plasticity. The constitutive parameters are typically …

Significant disparity of non-basal dislocation activities in hot-rolled highly-textured Mg and Mg-3Al-1Zn alloy under tension

D Zhao, X Ma, A Srivastava, G Turner, I Karaman… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
It is well-established that Mg-3Al-1Zn (AZ31) alloy exhibits much better tensile ductility than
pure Mg. However, the underlying mechanisms for such difference still remain relatively …

Microstructure, mechanical properties, corrosion resistance and cytocompatibility of WE43 Mg alloy scaffolds fabricated by laser powder bed fusion for biomedical …

M Li, F Benn, T Derra, N Kröger, M Zinser… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Open-porous scaffolds of WE43 Mg alloy with a body-center cubic cell pattern were
manufactured by laser powder bed fusion with different strut diameters. The geometry of the …

Effect of grain size on slip activity in pure magnesium polycrystals

CM Cepeda-Jiménez, JM Molina-Aldareguia… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of grain size on slip activity, a critical issue for
materials design that remains unsolved. Three pure magnesium polycrystals with average …

Deformation mechanisms of Mg-Ca-Zn alloys studied by means of micropillar compression tests

J Wang, Y Chen, Z Chen, J Llorca, X Zeng - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The effect of Ca and Zn in solid solution on the critical resolved shear stress (CRSS) of basal
slip, tensile twinning and pyramidal slip in Mg alloys has been measured through …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of printing direction and thickness on the mechanical behavior of SLM fabricated Hastelloy-X

CM Pilgar, AM Fernandez, S Lucarini… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
An FFT based polycrystalline homogenization framework is used to predict the temperature-
dependent response of SLM parts fabricated in Hastelloy-X, and to ascertain the origin of the …