Tailored Forming is a complex process joining two materials before forming. Especially the joining zone of the hybrid solid component is a possible weakness. Hence, our goal is to predict and adjust the thermomechanical material behaviour of the joining zone during and after the tailored forming process. The hybrid solid components studied in this work are composed of the aluminium alloy EN AW-6082 and the steel 20MnCr5. Metallurgical investigations on both materials show a polycrystalline microstructure. In the steel component, the two constituents ferrite and pearlite can be found with nearly the same volume fraction and randomly distributed grains. Furthermore, between the two bulk materials aluminium and steel, a thin layer of brittle intermetallic phases can be observed. In this work, the intermetallic phases are considered to behave purely thermoelastic, whereas the material model for aluminium, ferrite and pearlite represents thermoplastic material behaviour. We present the dislocation density based models for the thermoplastic materials formulated in a continuum mechanics framework. Thereby, different mechanisms of annihilation contributing to the evolution equation for the internal variables will be on focus.In order to investigate new ways to produce light weight and load-adjusted hybrid solid components, a process chain is developed in which two different materials are joined before being formed. During this so-called tailored forming process, one or more intermetallic phases evolve between the base materials aluminium and steel. Consisting of the five phases aluminium, ferrite, pearlite and two intermetallic phases with significantly different material properties, the joining zone might loose its load-bearing capacity due to crack initiation and propagation as a result of high mechanical stresses. To prevent the hybrid solid component from damage and failure, our goal is to understand, predict and adjust the material properties and the thermomechanical behaviour of the joining zone. Therefore, different micromechanically motivated material models are formulated.
Intermetallic phasesIntermetallic phases that form between aluminium and steel mainly can be determined to be a dominant orthorhombic Al 5 Fe 2phase and to a much smaller extend the monoclinic Al 3 Fe-phase [1]. These brittle intermetallic phases are unfavourable with regard to the thermomechanical properties of the hybrid part. As a consequence, to achieve a high mechanical strength of the hybrid solid component, the aim is to keep the layer of intermetallic phases as thin as possible [1]. a) b) 10