Hydrogenated vacancies lock dislocations in aluminium

Xie, Degang; Li, Suzhi; Li, Meng; Wang, Zhangjie; Gumbsch, Peter; Sun, Jun; Ma, Evan; Li, Ju; Shan, Zhiwei

doi:10.1038/ncomms13341

Title: Hydrogenated vacancies lock dislocations in aluminium

Journal Article · Thu Nov 03 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13341· OSTI ID:1361696

Xie, Degang ^[1]; Li, Suzhi ^[2]; Li, Meng ^[1]; Wang, Zhangjie ^[1]; Gumbsch, Peter ^[3]; Sun, Jun ^[1]; Ma, Evan ^[4];

^[5]; Shan, Zhiwei ^[1]

Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., Xi'an (China)
Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe (Germany)
Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe (Germany); Fraunhofer-Institut fur Werkstoffmechanik IWM, Freiburg (Germany)
Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., Xi'an (China); Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., Xi'an (China); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Due to its high diffusivity, hydrogen is often considered a weak inhibitor or even a promoter of dislocation movements in metals and alloys. By quantitative mechanical tests in an environmental transmission electron microscope, here we demonstrate that after exposing aluminium to hydrogen, mobile dislocations can lose mobility, with activating stress more than doubled. On degassing, the locked dislocations can be reactivated under cyclic loading to move in a stick-slip manner. However, relocking the dislocations thereafter requires a surprisingly long waiting time of ~103 s, much longer than that expected from hydrogen interstitial diffusion. Both the observed slow relocking and strong locking strength can be attributed to superabundant hydrogenated vacancies, verified by our atomistic calculations. Vacancies therefore could be a key plastic flow localization agent as well as damage agent in hydrogen environment.

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Research Organization:: Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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OSTI ID:: 1361696

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