First Direct In Situ Observation of Grain Boundary Sliding in Ultrafine Grained Noble Metal
First Direct In Situ Observation of Grain Boundary Sliding in Ultrafine Grained Noble Metal
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DOI:
10.1002/adem.201300413
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发表时间:
2014-05
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3.6
通讯作者:
Kejing Yang;H. Fecht;Y. Ivanisenko
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作者:
Kejing Yang;H. Fecht;Y. Ivanisenko
O DOI: 10.1002/adem.201300413 M M U N IC First Direct In Situ Observation of Grain Boundary Sliding in Ultrafine Grained Noble Metal** A T I By Kejing Yang, Hans-J€ org Fecht and Yulia Ivanisenko* O N The fundamental problem of the nature of plasticity in Recently, Kurmanaeva et al. found that bulk samples of materials with very small grain size attracts a great attention for science and technology. Theoretical estimates predict that nucleation andmultiplication of dislocations – the primary careers of plastic deformation in conventional crystalline solids, and propagation of plastic shear across grain boundaries require unrealistically high stresses when the grain size decreases to a few nanometers. In this regime, based on the immensely increased area of grain boundaries molecular dynamic (MD) simulations suggest alternative and potentially new deformation mechanisms, such as grain boundary sliding (GBS) combined with grain rotations in order to accommodate geometric constraints. However, so far little direct evidence on grain boundary-mediated deformation processes at such small grain sizes has been found due to technical barriers of analytical techniques. For example, Shan et al. reported grain rotation using in situ transmission electron microscope (TEM) techniques. Deformation relief characteristic of GBS was observed after room temperature deformation around depth-sensing indentations produced on the polished surfaces of pure aluminumultrafine-grained (UFG) samples and also in an UFGAl-6082 alloy after tensile testing. While report may suffer from artifacts due to the high surface-to-volume ratio of the TEM sample, conclusions in refs. were not verified by orientation imaging of grains to show that appeared surface cracks indeed occurred along grain boundaries. Further, critical experiments are required to provide physical evidence to prove or disprove the mesoscopic deformation mechanisms predicted on a theoretical basis in order to clarify the controversy and speculation.