A combined material model for numerical simulation of hot isostatic pressing Original Research Article

In modelling of hot isostatic pressing (HIP) of powder materials the constitutive model should be able to describe different deformation mechanisms during the consolidation process. In the early stage, the consolidation is dominated by granular behaviour. As temperature and pressure increase in the powder the deformation can be described by a viscoplastic model. Experimental observations show substantial time-independent deformation in the early stage. At this stage of the densification process, pores in the powder are still interconnected. This cannot be described properly by a viscoplastic model. The inconsistency between the deformation mechanisms can be treated by a combined elasto-plastic and elasto-viscoplastic model. Here a granular plasticity model is combined with a viscoplastic model. In previous works the viscoplastic model, power-law breakdown, has been used to describe the entire deformation process. The combined model is implemented into an in-house finite deformation code for the solution of coupled thermomechanical problems. The simulation of a hot isostatic pressing test with dilatometer is performed in order to compare calculated results with the experimental measurement. The results from previously performed analysis carried out with a viscoplastic model only are also compared. Analysis with the combined material model shows good agreement with the experiment for the whole densification process.