Surfalex HF formability study - Workflow 1 - Generate volume element

This MatFlow workflow is the first in a set of eight workflows developed during our formability study of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) material. In this first workflow, we generated a representative volume element (RVE) for the Surfalex HF material. To do this, we sampled 2000 orientations from a CTF file generated from EBSD measurements on the sheet RD-TD plane. The MTEX toolbox was used to sample the texture. The grain morphology was approximated using a Voronoi tessellation that was subsequently stretched by a factor of 1.5 in the RD direction, to mimic the slight grain elongation that was observed. The pre-processing tools in the DAMASK package were used to generated the RVE.

This workflow can be downloaded and explored in a Jupyter notebook, as explained in the GitHub repository here.