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Effect of the grain boundary on the evolution of deformation in a bicrystal

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The role of grain boundary constraint in strain localization and concomitant constitutive response was examined by performing a series of uniaxial compression tests on a tantalum bicrystal. Tantalum single crystals were diffusion bonded to form a (011) 90 twist boundary that was compressed along the common [011] direction. The plastic deformation resulted in the creation of deformation bands away from the highly constraining grain boundary, resembling those bands known from single crystal plastic deformation. Near the grain boundary, such deformation band formation could not be detected. Instead a distinctive pattern of crystal lattice rotation was observed that filled a rather large volume (several millimeters in size) around the bicrystal grain boundary. The internal deformation band structure as well as the crystal lattice rotation pattern near the bicrystal grain boundary were characterized and found to give greater rates of work hardening in the neighborhood of the grain boundary.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
15014787
Report Number(s):
UCRL-PROC-206443
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (6)

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Microstructural evolution during grain boundary engineering of low to medium stacking fault energy fcc materials journal June 2002
Correlating observations of deformation microstructures by TEM and automated EBSD techniques journal July 2001
Orientation mapping journal March 1988
Orientation Imaging Microscopy Investigation of the Compression Deformation of a [011] Ta Single Crystal journal April 1999

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