TY - JOUR
T1 - Cellular Automaton Simulation of Microstructure Evolution for Friction Stir Blind Riveting
AU - Samanta, Avik
AU - Shen, Ninggang
AU - Ji, Haipeng
AU - Wang, Weiming
AU - Li, Jingjing
AU - Ding, Hongtao
N1 - Funding Information:
• National Science Foundation (Grant Nos. CMMI-1537512 and CMMI 1651024).
Funding Information:
National Science Foundation (Grant Nos. CMMI-1537512 and CMMI 1651024).
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2018 by ASME.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - Friction stir blind riveting (FSBR) process offers the ability to create highly efficient joints for lightweight metal alloys. During the process, a distinctive gradient microstructure can be generated for the work material near the rivet hole surface due to high-gradient plastic deformation and friction. In this work, discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (dDRX) is found to be the major recrystallization mechanism of aluminum alloy 6111 undergoing FSBR. A cellular automaton (CA) model is developed for the first time to simulate the evolution of microstructure of workpiece material during the dynamic FSBR process by incorporating main microstructure evolution mechanisms, including dislocation dynamics during severe plastic deformation, dynamic recovery, dDRX, and subsequent grain growth. Complex thermomechanical loading conditions during FSBR are obtained using a mesh-free Lagrangian particle-based smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, and are applied in the CA model to predict the microstructure evolution near the rivet hole. The simulation results in grain structure agree well with the experiments, which indicates that the important characteristics of microstructure evolution during the FSBR process are well captured by the CA model. This study presents a novel numerical approach to model and simulate microstructure evolution undergoing severe plastic deformation processes.
AB - Friction stir blind riveting (FSBR) process offers the ability to create highly efficient joints for lightweight metal alloys. During the process, a distinctive gradient microstructure can be generated for the work material near the rivet hole surface due to high-gradient plastic deformation and friction. In this work, discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (dDRX) is found to be the major recrystallization mechanism of aluminum alloy 6111 undergoing FSBR. A cellular automaton (CA) model is developed for the first time to simulate the evolution of microstructure of workpiece material during the dynamic FSBR process by incorporating main microstructure evolution mechanisms, including dislocation dynamics during severe plastic deformation, dynamic recovery, dDRX, and subsequent grain growth. Complex thermomechanical loading conditions during FSBR are obtained using a mesh-free Lagrangian particle-based smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, and are applied in the CA model to predict the microstructure evolution near the rivet hole. The simulation results in grain structure agree well with the experiments, which indicates that the important characteristics of microstructure evolution during the FSBR process are well captured by the CA model. This study presents a novel numerical approach to model and simulate microstructure evolution undergoing severe plastic deformation processes.
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U2 - 10.1115/1.4038576
DO - 10.1115/1.4038576
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040306802
VL - 140
JO - Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the ASME
JF - Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the ASME
SN - 1087-1357
IS - 3
M1 - 031016
ER -