Kinematic, stress, and hardening analysis in finite double slip

A kinematic, stress, and hardening analysis of finite double slip in fcc crystals under axial loading is presented. The relative amounts of slip in classic 1925 experiments by Taylor and Elam (determined analytically in [Int. J. Plasticity 9 (1993) 159–179] by comparing theoretical and experimental cones of unextended directions), together with load-extension data and other measurements, are used to calculate resolved shear stress vs. slip curves and assess predictions of several finite distortional hardening theories. In particular, a new hardening rule is introduced that gives very close agreement with the anisotropic experimental results in double slip yet is consistent with the axisymmetric deformation, lattice stability, and isotropic hardening that are characteristic of fcc and bcc crystals in high symmetry axial-load orientations involving 6- and 8-fold slip.