Modelling of Flow Behaviour of Magnesium Alloys
The present investigation aims at studying the flow behaviour of magnesium alloys under different conditions in terms of temperature, deformation velocities and deformation. The modelling approach was based on a proposed equation to model the shape of each flow curve through different variables. The modelled flow curves were subsequently compared with those obtained with experiments. The models were validated on flow curves not used in the building stage. It was observed that, for low temperature values, high deformation velocities and deformations the final part of the flow curve has to be adapted in order to be adopted for the description of material in the numerical simulation. In other words it needs to be extrapolated. Also for the high temperature, the flow softening has to be limited in order to allow the extrapolation queue required for elevated deformations. The deformation value at which the extrapolation can start can be predicted with an other proposed equation detailed in the paper.