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Table 3 Exemplary evolution of reference strain for repeated cooling and heating assuming constant strains during solidification

From: A simple yet consistent constitutive law and mortar-based layer coupling schemes for thermomechanical macroscale simulations of metal additive manufacturing processes

Time

Temperature

Reference strain

\(r_p\)

\(r_s\)

\(r_m\)

\(t^0\)

\(T < T_s\)

\(\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^0 = 0\)

1.0

0.0

0.0

\(t^1\)

\(T = 0.5(T_l+T_s)\)

\(\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^1 = 0\)

0.5

0.0

0.5

\(t^2\)

\(T < T_s\)

\(\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^2 = \frac{1}{0.5} 0.5 (\varvec{\varepsilon }^{1} - \varvec{\varepsilon }_T^{1})\)

0.5

0.5

0.0

\(t^3\)

\(T = 0.25T_l +0.75T_s\)

\(\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^3 = \frac{1}{0.25} 0.25 \varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^2 = \varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^2\)

0.5

0.25

0.25

\(t^4\)

\(T < T_s\)

\(\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^4 = \frac{1}{0.5} (0.25 \varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^3 + 0.25(\varvec{\varepsilon }^3 - \varvec{\varepsilon }_T^3)) =\) \( \frac{1}{2}\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^3 +\frac{1}{2}(\varvec{\varepsilon }^3 - \varvec{\varepsilon }_T^3) \)

0.5

0.5

0.0

\(t^5\)

\(T = 0.75T_l +0.25T_s\)

\(\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^5 = \lim _{r_s \rightarrow 0}\frac{r_s}{r_s}\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^4 = \varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^4\)

0.25

0.0

0.75

\(t^6\)

\(T < T_s\)

\(\varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^6 = \frac{1}{0.75}(0\cdot \varvec{\varepsilon }_\text {ref}^5 + 0.75(\varvec{\varepsilon }^5 - \varvec{\varepsilon }_T^5)) = \varvec{\varepsilon }^5 - \varvec{\varepsilon }_T^5\)

0.25

0.75

0.0