Twinning induced spatial stress gradients: Local versus global stress states in hexagonal close-packed materials
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2023-09-01
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Length scale dependent microstructural heterogeneities serve as effective pathways in engineering materials for providing simultaneous strength-ductility enhancement. In this regard, hexagonal close-packed (hcp) materials that exhibit a combination of slip and multiple twinning modes potentially act as ideal candidates that generate heterogeneous microstructures. However, such an inhomogeneous distribution of crystallographic defects also results in build-up of spatially heterogeneous local stress gradients that can be distinct from globally applied stress state. In particular, stress fields arising at the vicinity of deformation twins and due to their interaction with grain interfaces often act as precursors to damage nucleation in most hcp metals and alloys. Hence, assessment of such local stresses and their overall impact on plasticity becomes necessary in order to understand the relationship between twinning and fracture in hcp materials. The current work utilizes commercially pure titanium (cp-Ti) as a model material to investigate the impact of twinning induced stress gradients on the local mechanical response. By means of correlative multiscale structural characterization and local stress gradient measurements, we establish a definitive relationship between applied stress vis-à-vis local stress on the local plasticity behavior ahead of a {112¯2} compression twin-grain boundary intersection in cp-Ti. Additionally, the role of twin interfacial structure for tension and compression twinning modes are experimentally determined and their corresponding impact on the local stress fields and associated twin migration mechanisms is assessed.
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256
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119142
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Elsevier
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Twinning; Grain-boundary; Local stress; Dislocations; Hexagonal close-packed materials
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03661 - Löffler, Jörg F. / Löffler, Jörg F.