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Strain hardening regimes and microstructural evolution during large strain compression of low stacking fault energy fcc alloys that form deformation twins
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Strain hardening regimes and microstructural evolution during large strain compression of low stacking fault energy fcc alloys that form deformation twins

Sirous Asgari, Ehab El-Danaf, Surya Kalidindi and Roger Doherty
Metallurgical and materials transactions. A, Physical metallurgy and materials science, v 28A(9), pp 1781-1795
01 Sep 1997

Abstract

Constant true strain rate simple compression tests were conducted on annealed, polycrystalline samples of alpha-brass and MP35N, and the evolution of the true stress (sigma)-true strain (epsilon) response was documented. From these data, the strain hardening rate was numerically computed, normalized with shear modulus (G), and plotted against both (sigma - sigma0)/G (sigma-0 being the initial yield strength of the alloy) and epsilon. Such normalized plots for alpha-brass and MP35N were found to be almost identical to each other, and revealed four distinct stages of strain hardening: stage A, with a steadily decreasing strain hardening rate up to a true strain of about -0.08; stage B, with an almost constant strain hardening rate up to a true strain of about -0.2; stage C, with a steadily decreasing strain hardening rate up to a true strain of about -0.55; and stage D, again with an almost constant strain hardening rate. Optical microscopy and TEM were performed on deformed samples. The results suggested that stage A corresponded to stage III strain hardening (dynamic recovery) of higher stacking fault energy fcc metals such as copper. (Author)

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