DEFORMATION PROCESSES IN MATERIALS. Final Report
It was found that irreversible plastic deformation occurs in polycrystaliine specimens of zinc, copper and its dilute alloys, and aluminum at room temperature, beginning at stresses indetectably above zero applied stress. Neither Frank-Read source generation nor simple bowing of dislocations between fixed nodes can explain the irreversible plastic behavior observed at small stresses in the metals studied. More extensive rearrangements of the dislocation substructure that probably involve glide of nodes and formation of new nodes seem to be required. Prestrained specimens of copper and its dilute alloys often exhibited bursts of plastic deformation which could possibly be due to cooperative rearrangement of the dislocation substructure in one or a few grains. The introduction, by particle bombardment, of new lengths of dislocations into the gage section surface of specimens of copper and its dilute alloys produced extensive irreversible plastic flow beginning at stresses indetectably above zero applied stress. The effect of prestraln on the shape of the loading and unloading curves for zinc shows that dislocation rearrangements that cause forward and reverse strain can occur simultaneously. The net strain rate can be the algebraic sum of the strain recovery rate and the forward creep rate. The present quantitative theories of the Peierls-Nabarro stress are insufficient to permit an estimate of its magnitude from the results of this investigation. In dilute copper alloys containing up to 0.1 at.% impurity, there were many dislocations in the grown-in networks that were not locked by segregation of the foreign atoms. The study of creep behavior over a range of temperatures and at the same strain sensitivity used in these experiments combined with dislocation etch pit observations of dislocation substructure appears to be a particularly fruitful field for further investigation. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- California. Univ., Berkeley. Materials Research Lab.
- DOE Contract Number:
- NONR-222(52)
- NSA Number:
- NSA-17-020446
- OSTI ID:
- 4730329
- Report Number(s):
- AD-284284
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-63
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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