Texture–Property Relationships in Aluminum Alloys: Simulations and Experiments

Aluminum alloys provide a huge and increasing application spectrum for formed and cast products. This article texture and anisotropy of aluminum alloys. Topics covered include: experimental determination of surface strains, nanotextures and microtextures, constitutive laws for crystal plasticity finite element simulations and cellular automata for recrystallization, microscopic aspects of texture evolution during plastic deformation and recrystallization, relationship between texture, microstructure and surface properties, integration anisotropy into metal-forming simulations, and crystallographic approximation elastic-plastic anisotropy.