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Deformation mechanisms in nanotwinned metal nanopillars
Nanotwinned metals are attractive in many applications because they simultaneously demonstrate high strength and high ductility, characteristics that are usually thought to be mutually exclusive. However, most nanotwinned metals are produced in polycrystalline forms and therefore contain randomly oriented twin and grain boundaries making it difficult to determine the origins of their useful mechanical properties. Here, we report the fabrication of arrays of vertically aligned copper nanopillars that contain a very high density of periodic twin boundaries and no grain boundaries or other microstructural features. We use tension experiments, transmission electron microscopy and atomistic simulations to investigate the influence of diameter, twin-boundary spacing and twin-boundary orientation on the mechanical responses of individual nanopillars. We observe a brittle-to-ductile transition in samples with orthogonally oriented twin boundaries as the twin-boundary spacing decreases below a critical value (~3–4 nm for copper). We also find that nanopillars with slanted twin boundaries deform via shear offsets and significant detwinning. The ability to decouple nanotwins from other microstructural features should lead to an improved understanding of the mechanical properties of nanotwinned metals
Deformation mechanism map of Cu/Nb nanoscale metallic multilayers as a function of temperature and layer thickness
The mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of Cu/Nb nanoscale
metallic multilayers (NMMs) manufactured by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) are
studied at 25C and 400C. Cu/Nb NMMs with individual layer thicknesses between 7
and 63 nm were tested by in-situ micropillar compression inside a scanning
electron microscope Yield strength, strain-rate sensitivities and activation
volumes were obtained from the pillar compression tests. The deformed
micropillars were examined under scanning and transmission electron microscopy
in order to examine the deformation mechanisms active for different layer
thicknesses and temperatures. The analysis suggests that room temperature
deformation was determined by dislocation glide at larger layer thicknesses and
interface-related mechanisms at the thinner layer thicknesses. The high
temperature compression tests, in contrast, revealed superior thermo-mechanical
stability and strength retention for the NMMs with larger layer thicknesses
with deformation controlled by dislocation glide. A remarkable transition in
deformation mechanism occurred as the layer thickness decreased, to a
deformation response controlled by diffusion processes along the interfaces,
which resulted in temperature-induced softening. A deformation mechanism map,
in terms of layer thickness and temperature, is proposed from the results
obtained in this investigation
Hall-petch relationship and strain rate sensitivity of nanocrystalline Mg - 5wt% A1 alloy
This study investigated the grain size dependence of mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of microcrystalline (mc) and nanocrystalline (nc: grain size below 100 nm) Mg-5wt% Al alloys. The Hall-Petch relationship was investigated by both instrumented indentation tests and compression tests. The test results from the indentation tests and compression tests match well with each other. The breakdown of Hall-Petch relationship and the elevated strain rate sensitivity (SRS) of present Mg-5wt% Al alloys when the grain size was reduced below 58nm indicated the more significant role of GB mediated mechanisms in plastic deformation process. However, the relatively smaller SRS values compared to GB sliding and coble creep process suggested the plastic deformation in the current study is still dislocation mediated mechanism dominant
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