Influence of Kinematic Hardening during Machining of ARMCO Iron

The simpler implementation of isotropic hardening begs the question, if modelling kinematic hardening is necessary, especially if the hardening is nonlinear and temperature dependent. This question not only depends on the material, but also on the modelled load case, which varies with different manufacturing processes. To answer this, thermo-mechanically coupled elasto-plastic materials were used in an implicit material model in ABAQUS/Standard for a two-dimensional cutting simulation. The nonlinear hardening in the models varies from isotropic to mixed isotropic-kinematic hardening. The two-dimensional cutting simulation uses a two-dimensional continuous remeshing technique. A slow machining process was simulated leaving out strain rate and temperature dependencies and focussing purely on the kinematics of deformation. The necessity of a kinematically translated yield surface is concluded for iron, by comparing the purely isotropic to the mixed isotropic-kinematic hardening results. A comparison with experimental data illustrates the conformance quality of the different hardening modes.