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Title: Critical Shape for the Growth of Grain Boundary Twin Embryos in Mg and Mg Alloys: Crystal Plasticity Modeling

Abstract

Application of polycrystalline hexagonal close packed (HCP) metals in engineering designs has been constrained by their anisotropic responses due to twinning and limited plasticity. In deformation, twins most often initiate at grain boundaries (GBs), and thicken and propagate across the grain. In this work, the GB twin embryos in Mg and Mg alloys, and the conditions that influence their propagation are investigated. Using a micromechanical crystal plasticity model, the role of embryo shape on the driving forces prevailing at the embryo boundaries that could support its expansion is studied. The modeled embryos are either planar, extending more in the shear direction than normal to the twin plane, or equiaxed. Results show that the thinner the embryo, the greater the driving forces for both thickening and forward propagation. Alloys with low prismatic-to-basal critical resolved shear stress (CRSS) ratios promote embryo thickening and large CRSS values for the slip mode that primarily accommodates the twin shear encourage propagation. The neighboring grains with orientations that enable local accommodation of the embryo twin shear by pyramidal slip promote forward propagation but have little effect on thickening. When two like embryos lie along the same GB, their paired interaction promotes forward propagation but hinders thickening.

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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC). Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1885602
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1887156
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-22-25410
Journal ID: ISSN 2674-063X; PII: alloys1020013
Grant/Contract Number:  
FWP-06SCPE401; 89233218CNA000001; NSF MOM-2051390; CNS-1725797
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Alloys
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Alloys Journal Volume: 1 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2674-063X
Publisher:
MDPI AG
Country of Publication:
Switzerland
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; deformation twinning; crystal plasticity; twin embryo; magnesium alloys

Citation Formats

Su, Yanqing, Arul Kumar, M., and Beyerlein, Irene J. Critical Shape for the Growth of Grain Boundary Twin Embryos in Mg and Mg Alloys: Crystal Plasticity Modeling. Switzerland: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.3390/alloys1020013.
Su, Yanqing, Arul Kumar, M., & Beyerlein, Irene J. Critical Shape for the Growth of Grain Boundary Twin Embryos in Mg and Mg Alloys: Crystal Plasticity Modeling. Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/alloys1020013
Su, Yanqing, Arul Kumar, M., and Beyerlein, Irene J. Mon . "Critical Shape for the Growth of Grain Boundary Twin Embryos in Mg and Mg Alloys: Crystal Plasticity Modeling". Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/alloys1020013.
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author = {Su, Yanqing and Arul Kumar, M. and Beyerlein, Irene J.},
abstractNote = {Application of polycrystalline hexagonal close packed (HCP) metals in engineering designs has been constrained by their anisotropic responses due to twinning and limited plasticity. In deformation, twins most often initiate at grain boundaries (GBs), and thicken and propagate across the grain. In this work, the GB twin embryos in Mg and Mg alloys, and the conditions that influence their propagation are investigated. Using a micromechanical crystal plasticity model, the role of embryo shape on the driving forces prevailing at the embryo boundaries that could support its expansion is studied. The modeled embryos are either planar, extending more in the shear direction than normal to the twin plane, or equiaxed. Results show that the thinner the embryo, the greater the driving forces for both thickening and forward propagation. Alloys with low prismatic-to-basal critical resolved shear stress (CRSS) ratios promote embryo thickening and large CRSS values for the slip mode that primarily accommodates the twin shear encourage propagation. The neighboring grains with orientations that enable local accommodation of the embryo twin shear by pyramidal slip promote forward propagation but have little effect on thickening. When two like embryos lie along the same GB, their paired interaction promotes forward propagation but hinders thickening.},
doi = {10.3390/alloys1020013},
journal = {Alloys},
number = 2,
volume = 1,
place = {Switzerland},
year = {Mon Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Mon Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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