Material behavior of the hexagonal alpha phase of a titanium alloy identified from nanoindentation tests

in European Journal of Mechanics A : Solids (2011), 30

This article focuses on the numerical modeling of nanoindentation tests performed on the hexagonal a phase of Ti-5553 alloy in order to identify its mechanical behavior. The main goal consists in ... [more ▼]

This article focuses on the numerical modeling of nanoindentation tests performed on the hexagonal a phase of Ti-5553 alloy in order to identify its mechanical behavior. The main goal consists in determining the relative strength of the slip modes in the a phase of Ti-5553. This work was performed using an elastoviscoplastic crystal plasticity-based constitutive law. The difficulties in determining the slip systems that can be activated and their corresponding critical resolved shear stresses (CRSS) are discussed. Numerical predictions are compared to experimental nanoindentation curves. [less ▲]

Interests and limitations of nanoindentation for bulk multiphase material identification: Application to the β phase of Ti-5553

in Acta Materialia (2009), (57), 5186-5195

This paper focuses on the numerical modeling of nanoindentation tests. The first goal of this study is to collect essential material parameters and boundary conditions from the literature and to complete ... [more ▼]

This paper focuses on the numerical modeling of nanoindentation tests. The first goal of this study is to collect essential material parameters and boundary conditions from the literature and to complete the data required to accurately model nanoindentation tests. The second goal of this study consists in validating the material parameters identified from macroscopic tensile tests of the body-centered cubic b phase of Ti-5553, a new generation of titanium alloy. This validation is performed looking at experimental and numerical nanoindentation curves obtained for different grain orientations. [less ▲]