Constitutive modeling of viscoplasticity including phase transformations for graded thermo‐mechanical processing

Tailored materials are of particular interest in modern engineering applications due to their potentially high strength and residual ductility. During hot forming processes, such as press hardening, microstructure transformations low carbon steels considered achieve the production tailored components. The relevant mechanisms during thermo-mechanical processing visco-plastic deformation phase transformations. Thus, we present an extension existing thermodynamically consistent continuum mechanical model. evolution under inhomogeneous temperature loading a homogeneous tensile specimen illustrated.