A Mesoscopic Mechanics Research on Deformation of 7B04 High Strength Aluminum Alloy

In this paper, a new method mesoscopic been studied for metal material deformation to fracture process. In the polycrystalline material plastic flow process, mesoscopic structural features was obtained for translation - vortex by digital image correlation principle. A preliminary analytical method of material deformation is established. The behavior of plastic deformation of 7B04 high strength aluminum alloy was analyzed. Grain groups deformation, amount of rotation and the energy dissipation distribution were analyzed. An important deformation features is that micro cracks were bred in severe plastic strain region on mesoscopic scale. Based on the stress concentration, the formation of rotational deformation can be regarded as the beginning of an irreversible damage criterion. The Rotation of grain groups is the reason of the formation of microcracks.