Plastic flow localization in commercially pure titanium (VT1-0 according to the Russian classification) with the surface modified by low-energy high current electron beams has been numerically...

A technique for computer simulation of three-dimensional structures of materials with reinforcing particles of complex irregular shapes observed in the experiments is proposed, which assumes scale invariance of the natural mechanical fragmentation. Two-phase structures of metal-matrix composites and coatings of different spatial scales are created, with the particles randomly distributed over the matrix and coating computational domains. Using the titanium carbide reinforcing particle embedded into the aluminum as an example, plastic strain localization and residual stress formation along the matrix-particle interface are numerically investigated during cooling followed by compression or tension of the composite. A detailed analysis is performed to evaluate the residual stress concentration in local regions of bulk tension formed under all-round and uniaxial compression of the composite due to the concave and convex interfacial asperities.

This paper numerically investigates the mechanical behavior of an aluminum specimen with a TiC–Al6061 composite coating. The strain localization and fracture patterns are determined for different scale levels. The effects of the loading type, distance between titanium carbide particles, and metal matrix coating thickness are studied. A numerical method based on the experimental data is proposed for constructing three-dimensional structures of materials with complex-shaped particles. The method is applied to create three-dimensional structures of a material with a composite coating on different scale levels. Interfacial strain localization patterns are examined under multiaxial compression caused by cooling of the metal matrix/ceramic particle composite from the melt to room temperature, as well as under uniaxial compression. The formation mechanisms of bulk tensile regions under mechanical and thermal compression are investigated.

The paper studies deformation and fracture of boride-coated steel. The dynamic boundary-value problem is solved in the plane strain statement by the finite difference method. The geometry of the coating-substrate interface corresponds to those experimentally observed and is explicitly specified in the calculations. The mechanical response of the steel substrate is described by an elastoplastic model of isotropically hardening material with relations for slow flows. The peculiarities of plastic strain localization and fracture during the propagation of a Lüders-Chernov band in the steel substrate are investigated under tension.