Quantitative insights into the dislocation source behavior of twin boundaries suggest a new dislocation source mechanism Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractPop-in statistics from nanoindentation with spherical indenters are used to determine the stress required to activate dislocation sources in twin boundaries (TBs) in copper and its alloys. The TB source activation stress is smaller than that needed for bulk single crystals, irrespective of the indenter size, dislocation density and stacking fault energy. Because an array of pre-existing Frank partial dislocations is present at a TB, we propose that dislocation emission from the TB occurs by the Frank partials splitting into Shockley partials moving along the TB plane and perfect lattice dislocations, both of which are mobile. The proposed mechanism is supported by recent high resolution transmission electron microscopy images in deformed nanotwinned (NT) metals and may help to explain some of the superior properties of nanotwinned metals (e.g. high strength and good ductility), as well as the process of detwinning by the collective formation and motion of Shockley partial dislocations along TBs. Graphic abstract

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Li, J., Pharr, G. M., & Kirchlechner, C.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Li, Juan||Pharr, GM||Kirchlechner, C

publication date

  • May 2021