Material may be the most significant variable in both manufacturing and simulation. Manufacturers are well aware that material selection can make or break a manufacturing process. Similarly, simulaton accuracy depends on the quality of the underlying material definition. Also consider that a variety of microstructural features significantly impact part manufacturing and performance. The DEFORM Material Suite was developed in response to an increasing emphasis on material data and advanced material modeling. The optional module provides diverse capabilities to enhance DEFORM for data development, multiscale modeling and microstructural analysis. Some of its tools reduce the time and effort required to develop material definitions. Others provide postprocessing methods for evaluating local response in a component model.
The module facilitates the following tasks:
• Fitting flow stress models to experimental data
• Deriving Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov (JMAK) parameters from experimental data
• Generating TTT curves from chemistry
• Tracking micro void/particle evolution
• Predicting and visualizing mesoscale grain kinetics
• Performing probabilistic modeling
• Evaluating deformation texture
• Incorporating crystal plasticity
• Estimating mechanical properties
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