Cold-rolled sheet metal that is often used in laser forming exhibits anisotropic properties, which are mostly caused by preferred orientations of grains developed during the severe plastic deformation such as cold rolling. In the present study, the textures of cold-rolled mild steel sheets are characterized and the influence of the plastic anisotropy on laser forming process is investigated. De...

Cold rolled sheet metal often used in laser forming exhibits anisotropic properties, which are mostly caused by preferred orientations of grains developed during the severe plastic deformation. In present study, the textures of cold-rolled mild steel sheets are characterized and the influence of the plastic anisotropy on laser forming process is investigated. Deformation textures are measured i...

The effect of the anisotropy on the elastoplastic response of two dimensional packed samples of polygons is investigated here, using molecular dynamics simulation. We show a correlation between fabric coefficients, characterizing the anisotropy of the granular skeleton, and the anisotropy of the elastic response. We also study the anisotropy induced by shearing on the subnetwork of the sliding ...

Fracture toughness anisotropy of AA2139 (Al-Cu-Mg) in T351 and T8 conditions has been investigated via mechanical testing of smooth and notched specimens of different geometries, loaded in the rolling direction (L) or in the transverse direction (T). Fracture mechanisms were investigated via SEM and synchrotron radiation computed tomography (SRCT). Contributions to failure anisotropy are identi...

This paper presents a unified approach to model the influence of fabric anisotropy 6 and its evolution on both the elastic and plastic responses of sand. A physically based fabric 7 tensor is employed to characterize the anisotropic internal structure of sand. It is incorporated 8 into the nonlinear elastic stiffness tensor to describe anisotropic elasticity, and is further 9 included explicitl...

The r-value of a sheet metal is a measure of plastic anisotropy frequently used for prediction of performance in deep-drawing. It has also gured prominently in the literature for validation of theories where the predicted angular dependence of r is compared with the measured dependence. As plastic anisotropy in sheet metals is caused mainly by the preferred orientations of grains within the pol...

To investigate the effect of grain morphology on the mechanical properties of polycrystalline Mg, two types of bulk Mg samples with equiaxed and microlaminated grain structures were fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS) of as-received Mg powder and cryomilled disc-shaped Mg powder particles, respectively. Based on a detailed microstructural investigation, the mechanisms by which microstruc...