Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
One has simulated by a finite element computation, the tensile plastic deformation of bcc aggregates with the same initial crystallographic texture but a different spatial distribution of orientations. The computations show fairly large differences between the simulations in terms of axial strain fields: one aggregate presents an homogeneous field, while another one localizes the strain in a narrow band. This “macroscopic effect” is then analyzed at the smaller scale of the crystallite by comparing local re-orientations, glide activity and stress levels. The influence of neighboring grains and of the “local”texture is thus shown. This is an effect that polycrystalline models (Taylor or self-consistent models) cannot account for.