Influence of Grain Neighbourhood on FCC Texture Simulations

We present plane strain simulations about the dependence of deformation textures in aluminium polycrystals on grain interaction. The predictions are compared to experiments. For the simulations we use a crystal plasticity finite element and different homogenization models. The FE simulations are conducted by statistically varying the arrangement of the grains in a polycrystal where each grain contains 8 integration points and has different neighbor grains in each simulation.