Development of Hot Working Process Maps for Incompressible TRIP Steel and Zirconia Composites Using Crystal Plasticity-Based Numerical Simulations

In this study, we developed hot working process maps for incompressible TRIP steel composites with 0%, 5%, 10%, and 20% zirconia particles using crystal plasticity-based numerical simulations. Experimentally recorded material flow curves were used to calibrate material model parameters for TRIP steel and zirconia. The fitted material models were used for running the composite simulations. Representative volume elements (RVEs) for composites were generated using the open-source DREAM.3D program. After post-processing, the simulation results were used to calculate global and local stress–strain values at temperatures ranging from 700 to 1200 °C and strain rates ranging from 0.001 to 100 s−1. Local stress–strain maps allow researchers to investigate the effect of zirconia particles on composites, which is difficult to measure experimentally at these high temperatures. On the dynamic material model (DMM), the global results were then used to construct process maps. Because the ability of the simulation model to depict dynamic softening was constrained, the processing maps derived from the simulation data did not depict regions of instability. By running crystal plasticity-based numerical simulations, we reported important findings that might help in building hot working process maps for dual-phase materials.