Deformation Mechanisms in Ultrafine-Grained Zn at Different Strain Rates and Temperatures

2013 ◽  
Vol 592-593 ◽  
pp. 313-316
Author(s):  
Péter Jenei ◽  
Guy Dirras ◽  
Jenő Gubicza ◽  
Hervé Couque

The deformation mechanisms in ultrafine-grained hexagonal close packed Zn were investigated at different strain rates and temperatures. The influence of grain size on the deformation mechanisms was revealed by comparing the results obtained on ultrafine-grained and coarse-grained Zn. It was found that for coarse-grained Zn at room temperature and strain rates lower than 10-2s-1twinning contributed to plasticity besides dislocation activity. For strain rates higher than 103s-1the plasticity in coarse-grained Zn was controlled by dislocation drag. In ultrafine-grained Zn the relatively large dislocation density (~1014m-2) and the small grain size (~250 nm) limit the dislocation velocity yielding the lack of dislocation drag effects up to 104s-1. For ultrafine-grained Zn, twinning was not observed in the entire strain rate range due to its very small grain size. During room temperature compression at strain rates higher than 0.35 s-1and in high temperature creep deformation of ultrafine-grained Zn besides prismatic and pyramidal <c+a> dislocations observed in the initial state, <a>-type basal and pyramidal dislocations as well as other <c+a>-type pyramidal dislocations were formed.

Author(s):  
Jiangjiang Hu ◽  
Weiming Sun ◽  
Taihua Zhang ◽  
Yusheng Zhang

At room temperature, the indentation morphologies of crystalline copper with different grain size including nanocrystalline (NC), ultrafine-grained (UFG) and coarse-grained (CG) copper were studied by nanoindentation at the strain rate of 0.04/s without holding time at indentation depth of 2000 nm. As the grain size increasing, the height of the pile-up around the residual indentation increases and then has a slightly decrease in the CG Cu, While the area of the pile-up increases constantly. Our analysis has revealed that the dislocation motion and GB activities in the NC Cu, some cross- and multiple-slips dislocation insides the larger grain in the UFG Cu, and forest dislocations from the intragranular Frank-Read sources in the CG Cu, would directly induce these distinct pile-up effect.


2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 191-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
S J Jones ◽  
R E Gagnon ◽  
A Derradji ◽  
A Bugden

The uniaxial compressive strength of iceberg ice was determined over a wide range of strain rates from 10–8 to 10+1 s–1 at –10°C. It was found that for strain rates less than 10–4 s–1, strength increased in a power-law manner with strain rate. Above 10–4 s–1, the strength was essentially constant at 4 MPa, dropping slightly between 10–3 and 10–1 s–1, before rising again to a value of about 10 MPa at 10+1 s–1. Thin sections of the ice revealed a small grain size of about 3.5 mm and elongated air bubbles with a ratio of length to width of about 10. In the practical strain-rate range of interest, the maximum failure stress observed was 4.8 MPa. PACS No.: 62.20


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (16-19) ◽  
pp. 1744014
Author(s):  
M. Li ◽  
Q. W. Jiang

Tensile deformation behavior of ultrafine-grained (UFG) copper processed by accumulative roll-bonding (ARB) was studied under different strain rates at room temperature. It was found that the UFG copper under the strain rate of 10[Formula: see text] s[Formula: see text] led to a higher strength (higher flow stress level), flow stability (higher stress hardening rate) and fracture elongation. In the fracture surface of the sample appeared a large number of cleavage steps under the strain rate of 10[Formula: see text] s[Formula: see text], indicating a typical brittle fracture mode. When the strain rate is 10[Formula: see text] or 10[Formula: see text] s[Formula: see text], a great amount of dimples with few cleavage steps were observed, showing a transition from brittle to plastic deformation with increasing strain rate.


2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 605-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kvačkaj ◽  
A. Kováčová ◽  
J. Bidulská ◽  
R. Bidulský ◽  
R. Kočičko

AbstractIn this study, static, dynamic and tribological properties of ultrafine-grained (UFG) oxygen-free high thermal conductivity (OFHC) copper were investigated in detail. In order to evaluate the mechanical behaviour at different strain rates, OFHC copper was tested using two devices resulting in static and dynamic regimes. Moreover, the copper was subjected to two different processing methods, which made possible to study the influence of structure. The study of strain rate and microstructure was focused on progress in the mechanical properties after tensile tests. It was found that the strain rate is an important parameter affecting mechanical properties of copper. The ultimate tensile strength increased with the strain rate increasing and this effect was more visible at high strain rates$({\dot \varepsilon} \sim 10^2 \;{\rm{s}}^{ - 1} )$. However, the reduction of area had a different progress depending on microstructural features of materials (coarse-grained vs. ultrafine-grained structure) and introduced strain rate conditions during plastic deformation (static vs. dynamic regime). The wear behaviour of copper was investigated through pin-on-disk tests. The wear tracks examination showed that the delamination and the mild oxidational wears are the main wear mechanisms.


2006 ◽  
Vol 503-504 ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Mueller ◽  
Karsten Durst ◽  
Dorothea Amberger ◽  
Matthias Göken

The mechanical properties of ultrafine-grained metals processed by equal channel angular pressing is investigated by nanoindentations in comparison with measurements on nanocrystalline nickel with a grain size between 20 and 400 nm produced by pulsed electrodeposition. Besides hardness and Young’s modulus measurements, the nanoindentation method allows also controlled experiments on the strain rate sensitivity, which are discussed in detail in this paper. Nanoindentation measurements can be performed at indentation strain rates between 10-3 s-1 and 0.1 s-1. Nanocrystalline and ultrafine-grained fcc metals as Al and Ni show a significant strain rate sensitivity at room temperature in comparison with conventional grain sized materials. In ultrafine-grained bcc Fe the strain rate sensitivity does not change significantly after severe plastic deformation. Inelastic effects are found during repeated unloading-loading experiments in nanoindentations.


2010 ◽  
Vol 667-669 ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
Wei Ping Hu ◽  
Si Yuan Zhang ◽  
Xiao Yu He ◽  
Zhen Yang Liu ◽  
Rolf Berghammer ◽  
...  

An aged Al-5Zn-1.6Mg alloy with fine η' precipitates was grain refined to ~100 nm grain size by severe plastic deformation (SPD). Microstructure evolution during SPD and mechanical behaviour after SPD of the alloy were characterized by electron microscopy and tensile, compression as well as nanoindentation tests. The influence of η' precipitates on microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine grained Al-Zn-Mg alloy is discussed with respect to their effect on dislocation configurations and deformation mechanisms during processing of the alloy.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Farè ◽  
N. Lecis ◽  
M. Vedani

A study was carried out on aging behaviour of a 6082 alloy processed by two different severe plastic deformation techniques: ECAP and asymmetric rolling. Both techniques were able to generate an ultrafine-grained structure in samples processed at room temperature. It was stated that severe straining promotes marked changes in the postdeformation aging kinetics. The peaks of β′′/β′ transition phases were anticipated and of progressively reduced intensity over the coarse grained alloy. A further peak accounting for onset of recrystallization also appeared in the most severely deformed samples. Full consistency in peak shape and position was found when comparing materials processed by ECAP and asymmetric rolling. Isothermal aging treatments performed at 180°C revealed that in the severely deformed samples, aging became so fast that the hardness curves continuously decreased due to overwhelming effects of structure restoration. On the contrary, aging at 130°C offers good opportunities for fully exploiting the precipitate hardening effects in the ultrafine-grained alloy.


2005 ◽  
Vol 297-300 ◽  
pp. 905-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Chen ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Masao Sakane ◽  
Haruo Nose

A series of tensile tests at constant strain rate were conducted on tin-lead based solders with different Sn content under wide ranges of temperatures and strain rates. It was shown that the stress-strain relationships had strong temperature- and strain rate- dependence. The parameters of Anand model for four solders were determined. The four solders were 60Sn-40Pb, 40Sn-60Pb, 10Sn-90Pb and 5Sn-95Pb. Anand constitutive model was employed to simulate the stress-strain behaviors of the solders for the temperature range from 313K to 398K and the strain rate range from 0.001%sP -1 P to 2%sP -1 P. The results showed that Anand model can adequately predict the rate- and temperature- related constitutive behaviors at all test temperatures and strain rates.


2010 ◽  
Vol 667-669 ◽  
pp. 707-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Yan Liu ◽  
Xi Cheng Zhao ◽  
Xi Rong Yang

Ultrafine-grained (UFG) commercially pure (CP) Ti with a grain size of about 200 nm was produced by ECAP up to 8 passes using route BC at room temperature. For ECAP processing a proper die set was designed and constructed with an internal channel angle Φ of 120° and an outer arc of curvature Ψ of 20°. Strain rate sensitivity of UFG CP-Ti and CG CP-Ti were investigated by compression tests in the temperature range of 298~673K and strain rate range of 10-4~100s-1 using Gleeble simulator machine. Evolution of the microstructure during compression testing was observed using optical microscopy (OM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Strain rate sensitivity value m of the UFG CP-Ti has been measured and is found to increase with increasing temperature and decreasing strain rate, and is enhanced compared to that of CG CP-Ti. Result of the deformation activation energy determination of UFG CP-Ti indicates that the deformation mechanism in UFG CP-Ti is correlated to the grain boundaries.


2012 ◽  
Vol 735 ◽  
pp. 295-300
Author(s):  
Elena Avtokratova ◽  
Oleg Sitdikov ◽  
Michael Markushev ◽  
Radik R. Mulyukov

Unique superplastic elongations up to 4100% were achieved at 450°C in the strain rate range of 10-2-10-1s-1for Al-Mg-Sc-Zr alloy with a grain size ~1 μm processed by warm-to-hot equal channel angular pressing. Such a behavior is attributed to the synergy of complementary factors resulted in high homogeneity and stability of ultrafine-grained microstructure and superplastic flow, involving large proportion of high-angle grain boundaries, presence of dispersoids of aluminides of transition metals and negligible amount of coarse excess phases.


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