Modelling of Thermomechanical Treatment

According to the traditional meaning, thermomechanical treatments are combinations of heat treatments and plastic deformations which may or may not be simultaneous and which aim at controlling material properties that could not be obtained otherwise. To a certain extent, the deformation aspects of this concept have been dealt with in Chapter 4.3.4, when deformation and heat transfer analyses were made in parallel. It was shown then how a deformation can be modelled at any temperature with a variety of heat transfer boundary conditions. That chapter therefore covered the mechanical aspects during a thermomechanical treatment.