Multi-scale modelling of mechanical responses of FeCrAl alloys with solid-solution and processing effects
1 Ningbo Key Laboratory of High Performance Petroleum Resin Preparation Engineering and Technology, Ningbo Polytechnic University, Ningbo 315800, China
2 College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
3 Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
4 State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, BIC-ESAT, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
5 Institute of Mechanics and Computational Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
6 School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
7 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
8 Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology, Huzhou 313001, China
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  • Citation
    Liu Z, Guo Y, Zhang J, Li Y, Hu Z, et al. Multi-scale modelling of mechanical responses of FeCrAl alloys with solid-solution and processing effects. AI Mater. 2025(2):0015, https://doi.org/10.55092/aimat20250015. 
  • DOI
    10.55092/aimat20250015
  • Copyright
    Copyright2025 by the authors. Published by ELSP.
Abstract

A multi-scale computational model is proposed to calculate the mechanical responses of Fe-Cr-Al alloys with solid-solution and processing effects through a bidirectional coupling strategy. Based on crystal plasticity (CP) theory, a temperature-dependent critical resolved shear stress (CRSS) superposition model is constructed to couple with the molecular dynamics (MD), phase field model (PFM) and finite element method (FEM). By calibrating with few experimental data, we established an atom-informed solid solution strengthening model for multicomponent Fe-based alloys, thus successfully reproducing the polycrystalline features and stress-strain responses under different processing processes. Particularly, the multiscale model can provide high-precision yield strengths and reasonable tensile strength ranges for different grades of FeCrAl alloys. Finally, we present a case study employing an integration approach which starts from several experiment data, extends to hundreds of computational data and finally makes full-range prediction from artificial neural network methods. This study provides a viable and scalable scheme for the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) design and optimization of nuclear-grade FeCrAl alloys.

Keywords

FeCrAl; mechanical responses; multi-scale calculation; Materials Genome Initiative; crystal plasticity; phase field; molecular dynamics; finite element method

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