Modeling on magnetization behavior of ferromagnetic material during cyclic deformation

Abstract In this paper, a nonlinear magneto-mechanical coupling constitutive model is established to describe the magnetization behavior of ferromagnetic materials under cyclic elastoplastic deformation. The critical state is introduced into the hysteretic magneto-mechanical model. In the critical state, the magnetization rates of loading and unloading are different. A new nonlinear plastic effective magnetic field is proposed by considering the effect of pinning sites caused by cross slip dislocation to describe the magnetization behavior under asymmetric cyclic loading. The softening factor and activation condition of plastic modulus parameter are introduced based on the cyclic plastic constitutive model to describe the decrease of plastic modulus. A new magnetization model for ferromagnetic materials under cyclic plastic deformation is established by combining the magneto-mechanical coupling model with the cyclic plastic constitutive model. Compared with the experiments and existing models, it is shown that the proposed model can capture the deformation and magnetization behavior well under cyclic loading.