Effect of shear bands on texture evolution in middle-high stacking fault energy metals as characterized on model polycrystalline copper
Résumé
Periodic crystal lattice rotations within compact clusters of shear bands (SB), developed in copper (purity of 99.98%), have been characterized to examine the role of lattice re-orientation within grains on slip propagation across grain boundaries. Polycrystalline copper (grain size 50 mu m) was deformed 50% in plane strain compression at room temperature to form two sets of well-defined macroscopic shear bands (MSB). The deformation-induced sub-structures and local changes in crystallographic orientations were investigated by FEG-SEM, equipped with high resolution EBSD. In all the deformed grains examined (within MSBs) a strong tendency to strain-induced re-orientation could be observed. Their crystal lattice rotated in such a way that one of the {111} slip planes became nearly parallel to the direction of maximum shear. A natural consequence of this rotation is the formation of a specific MSB microtexture which facilitates slip propagation across grain boundaries without tiny visible variation in the slip direction although the slip plane did not coincide exactly in the adjacent grains.
Domaines
Matériaux
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