Assessment of Deformation Flow in 1050 Aluminum Alloy by the Implementation of Constitutive Model Parameters

The behavior of technically pure aluminum was examined, and this investigation allowed the determination of the material constants by various models. The model parameters derived were subsequently used for the finite element simulations (FEM) of a cold rolling process. To determine the tuning parameters such as the strain-hardening coefficient K, strain-hardening exponent n, or elastic constant E, a tensile test was performed on the heat-treated sheet of 1050 Al alloy and the experimentally observed deformation behavior was compared to the simulated counterpart. The results of the FEM calculations reveal that the strain-hardening characteristics can be alternatively derived from the Brinell indentation. Additionally, the determined constitutive model parameters (E = 69.8 GPa, K = 144.6 MPa, and n = 0.3) were verified by simulating both the symmetric and asymmetric rolling processes. The distribution of the equivalent strain across the sheet thickness was computed by the FEM, and it was found that the modeled deformation profiles tend to reproduce the experimentally observed ones with high accuracy for different strain modes inasmuch as the mentioned rolling trials accommodate diverse amounts of shear and normal strain components.