Integrated Computational Materials, Process and Product Engineering – IC-MPPE 2022

On the example of Al 2024, it is shown how experimental analysis and computational materials simulation can interact to identify physical mechanisms that operate in the alloy in the course of component production. In particular, the rotary swaging (Rundkneten) process is taken as an example where more or less strong plastic deformation during shaping of the component is followed up by an annealing step. In the latter, the microstructure recrystallizes with a clear correlation between the amount of deformation that is introduced during rotary swaging and the resulting grain size. The experimental characterization is mainly performed with electron back scatter diffraction (EBSD), while the simulations are carried out with the Finite Element software ANSYS, which is used to determine the local distribution of strains as well as the software package MatCalc, which has been co-developed in several succeeding projects at the Materials Center Leoben, to simulate the evolution of microstructure.