Analytical model to characterize temperature-dependent anisotropic-asymmetric behavior of Mg-Gd-Y alloy

• Uncovering temperature-, loading direction- and stress state-dependent plastic behavior of a Mg-Gd-Y alloy. • Developing a combined swift-voce model with the temperature variable to describe the temperature-dependent plastic behavior. • Characterizing the evolving temperature-dependent anisotropic-asymmetric yield behavior with the plastic strain. • Capturing the three-point bending deformation behavior under various temperatures by the proposed A-Yoon2014+SVT model. The work is conducted to uncover and simulate the dependence of the evolving anisotropic-asymmetric yield behavior on the temperature for an Mg-Gd-Y alloy. Experiments were carried out at 25∼300 °C, including uniaxial tension and compression. The strength is observed to decrease non-linearly as the temperature increases. Thermal softening effect is not significant when the temperature is lower than 200 °C, but the strength decreases dramatically at high temperature than 250 °C. Tension-compression asymmetry and anisotropy are observed to be strongly and nonlinearly dependent on strain and temperature. The temperature effect is taken into account in a combined Swift-Voce (SVT) model to predict the temperature-dependent strain hardening behavior with a higher accuracy than the traditional Johnson-Cook and Zerilli-Armstrong equations. An analytical Yoon2014 (A-Yoon2014) yield function is established to capture the evolving anisotropic-asymmetric behavior with respect to strain and temperature. The predicted force-stroke curves of the A-Yoon2014+SVT model are closer to the experimental results of the three-point bending process than the numerical results of the original Yoon2014+SVT model. Given its user-friendliness and high accuracy for the modeling of temperature-dependent anisotropic-asymmetric hardening behavior, the A-Yoon2014+SVT model is recommended to be utilized in the numerical simulation of plastic forming process for hexagonal close-packed metals.