Coupled strain-induced alpha to omega phase transformation and plastic flow in zirconium under high pressure torsion in a rotational diamond anvil cell

doi:10.1016/j.msea.2018.06.061

Title: Coupled strain-induced alpha to omega phase transformation and plastic flow in zirconium under high pressure torsion in a rotational diamond anvil cell

Abstract

Strain-induced α → ω phase transformation (PT) in the zirconium (Zr) sample under compression and plastic shear in a rotational diamond anvil cell (RDAC) is investigated using the finite element method (FEM). The fields of the volume fraction of the ω phase, all components of the stress tensor, and plastic strain are presented. Before torsion, PT barely occurs. During torsion under a fixed applied force, PT initiates at the center of the sample, where the pressure first reaches the minimum pressure for strain-induced α → ω PT, p^d_ε, and propagates from the center to the periphery and from the symmetry plane to the contact surface. Salient increase of the shear friction stress and pressure at the center of a sample, so-called pressure self-multiplication effect observed experimentally for some other materials, is predicted here for Zr. It is caused by much higher yield strength of the phase in comparison with the phase. Except at the very center of a sample, the total contact friction stress is equal to the yield strength in shear of the mixture of phases and the plastic sliding occurs there. Due to the reduction in sample thickness and radial material flow during torsion, the ω phase canmore »« less

Authors:

^[1]; Levitas, Valery I. ^[2]; Kamrani, Mehdi ^[3]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-06-19

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1458964

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-23858
Journal ID: ISSN 0921-5093

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Materials Science and Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 731; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0921-5093

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Strain-induced phase transformations; Zirconium; High pressure; Rotational diamond anvil cell; Plasticity

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                    Feng, Biao, Levitas, Valery I., and Kamrani, Mehdi. Coupled strain-induced alpha to omega phase transformation and plastic flow in zirconium under high pressure torsion in a rotational diamond anvil cell.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Feng, Biao, Levitas, Valery I., & Kamrani, Mehdi. Coupled strain-induced alpha to omega phase transformation and plastic flow in zirconium under high pressure torsion in a rotational diamond anvil cell.  United States.  doi:10.1016/j.msea.2018.06.061.

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                    Feng, Biao, Levitas, Valery I., and Kamrani, Mehdi. Tue .  
        "Coupled strain-induced alpha to omega phase transformation and plastic flow in zirconium under high pressure torsion in a rotational diamond anvil cell".  United States.  doi:10.1016/j.msea.2018.06.061.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1458964.

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@article{osti_1458964,

  title        = {Coupled strain-induced alpha to omega phase transformation and plastic flow in zirconium under high pressure torsion in a rotational diamond anvil cell},

  author       = {Feng, Biao and Levitas, Valery I. and Kamrani, Mehdi},

  abstractNote = {Strain-induced α → ω phase transformation (PT) in the zirconium (Zr) sample under compression and plastic shear in a rotational diamond anvil cell (RDAC) is investigated using the finite element method (FEM). The fields of the volume fraction of the ω phase, all components of the stress tensor, and plastic strain are presented. Before torsion, PT barely occurs. During torsion under a fixed applied force, PT initiates at the center of the sample, where the pressure first reaches the minimum pressure for strain-induced α → ω PT, pdε, and propagates from the center to the periphery and from the symmetry plane to the contact surface. Salient increase of the shear friction stress and pressure at the center of a sample, so-called pressure self-multiplication effect observed experimentally for some other materials, is predicted here for Zr. It is caused by much higher yield strength of the phase in comparison with the phase. Except at the very center of a sample, the total contact friction stress is equal to the yield strength in shear of the mixture of phases and the plastic sliding occurs there. Due to the reduction in sample thickness and radial material flow during torsion, the ω phase can be observed in the region where pressure is lower than pdε, which may lead to misinterpretation of the experimental data for pdε. For the same applied force, torsion drastically promotes PT in comparison with the compression without torsion. However, the PT process in RDAC is far from optimal: (a) due to the pressure self-multiplication effect, the pressure in the transformed region is much higher than that required for PT; (b) the region in which PT occurs is limited by the pressure pdε and cannot be expanded by increasing a shear under a fixed force; and (c) the significant reduction in thickness during torsion reduces the total mass of the high-pressure phase. These drawbacks can be overcome by placing a sample within a strong gasket with an optimized geometry. It is shown that, due to strong pressure heterogeneity, characterization of α → ω and α → β PTs based on the averaged pressure contains large errors. Furthermore, the obtained results, in addition to providing an improved understanding of the strain-induced PTs, may be beneficial for the optimum design of experiments and the extraction of material parameters, as well as optimization and control of PTs by varying the geometry and loading conditions.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.msea.2018.06.061},

  journal      = {Materials Science and Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 731,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {6}

}

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FIG. 1: (a) A quarter of the sample and the anvil in the initial undeformed state with the geometric parameters, (b) the geometry of a quarter of the sample, (c) a RDAC schematic.

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