{"title":"An investigation on the transformation of the icosahedral phase in the Al-Fe-Cu system during mechanical milling and subsequent annealing","authors":"N. Mukhopadhyay, T. Yadav, O. Srivastava","doi":"10.1080/01418610208239629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208239629","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Icosahedral quasicrystalline material in the Al-Fe-Cu system was mechanically milled in an attritor ball mill (Szegvari attritor) for 1, 3, 6 and 10 h in dry air, at a speed of 400 rev min−1 and with a ball-to-powder ratio of 20 to 1. Structural transformations and the consequent phase evolutions during mechanical milling and subsequent heat treatments were studied by X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis (DTA) and transmission electron microscopy techniques. After milling for 1 h, the evolution of disordered B2 phase (a=0.29 nm) was observed to coexist with the parent icosahedral phase, whereas a microstructure consisting of nanosized B2 particles distributed in an amorphous matrix was observed after further milling (3–10 h). However, no sharp peak corresponding to the phase transformation was identified in DTA, but the microstructure of the powder milled for 10 h after the DTA experiment was found to transform to a mixture of icosahedral and B2 phases, where B2 appears to be the major phase in contrast with that in as-cast material. Isothermal heat treatment of powder mechanically milled at 850°C for 10 and 20 h led to complete transformation to a single B2 phase with a high degree of long-range ordering. The implication of these transformations will be discussed with reference to their relative stabilities among the competing phases during milling and subsequent heat treatment.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116154994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Zhang, M. Haag, Oliver Kraft, Alexander Wanner, Eduard Arzt, Eduard Arzt
{"title":"Microstructural changes in the cell walls of a closed-cell aluminium foam during creep","authors":"P. Zhang, M. Haag, Oliver Kraft, Alexander Wanner, Eduard Arzt, Eduard Arzt","doi":"10.1080/01418610208239623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208239623","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The microstructure of an Alporas® foam was examined both before and after creep deformation. It was found that the initial microstructure of the foam consists of subgrains which are several micrometres in size. Because of the complicated distribution of the applied stress in a foam, the corresponding microstructure development is rather inhomogeneous during creep. The microstructure may change drastically by choosing different investigated areas in the same deformed foam. In most areas, no evident changes in microstructure can be seen in comparison with the initial microstructure; however, in strongly deformed areas, subgrains with a much smaller average size are found, and the shape of these subgrains is equiaxed. The stress estimated from the subgrain size reveals that locally very high stresses must have existed during creep deformation, which may reach the power-law breakdown regime. This is a reasonable explanation of the high stress exponent obtained for Alporas® foams.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"56 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120934761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single-dislocation-based strengthening mechanisms in nanoscale metallic multilayers","authors":"Amit Misra, J. Hirth, Harriet Kung","doi":"10.1080/01418610208239626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208239626","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A breakdown from the dislocation-pile-up-based Hall-Petch model is typically observed in metallic multilayers when the layer thickness (one half of the bilayer period) is of the order of a few tens of nanometres. The multilayer strength, however, continues to increase with decreasing layer thickness to a few nanometres. A model based on the glide of single dislocations is developed to interpret the increasing strength of multilayered metals with decreasing layer thickness when the Hall-Petch model is no longer applicable. The model is built on the hypothesis that plastic flow is initially confined to one layer and occurs by the motion of single ‘hairpin’ dislocation loops that deposit misfit-type dislocations at the interface and transfer load to the other, elastically deforming layer. The composite yield occurs when slip is eventually transmitted across the interface, overcoming an additional resistance from the interface dislocation arrays. In a lower-bound estimate, the stress for the initial glide of ‘hairpin’ dislocation loops, confined to one layer, is similar to the classical Orowan stress. In the upper-bound estimate, the interaction of the glide loop with the existing misfit dislocation arrays at the interface is also considered in deriving the Orowan stress. The effect of in-plane residual stresses in the layers on the Orowan stress calculation is also considered. The model predictions compare favourably with experimentally measured strengths on Cu-based multilayers. When the layer thickness is decreased to a couple of nanometres, the strength reaches a plateau and, in some cases, drops with decreasing layer thickness. The single-dislocation model developed here predicts strengthening with decreasing layer thickness and, therefore, does not explain the deformation behaviour in this regime. In the regime of several nanometres, the deformation behaviour can be explained by dislocation transmission across the interface followed by glide of loops that span several layer thicknesses.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126158092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temperature- and electron-beam-induced crystallization of zirconia thin films deposited from an aqueous medium: A transmission electron microscopy study","authors":"V. Roddatis, D. Su, F. Jentoft, R. Schlögl","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Thin zirconia films prepared by self-assembled monolayer-mediated deposition from an aqueous medium were investigated by transmission electron microscopy and electron-energy-loss spectroscopy. As-grown films were amorphous, and annealing at temperatures below 525°C did not influence the film structure. Annealing at 550°C led to crystallization; amorphous material transformed into the tetragonal phase of ZrO2 (t-ZrO2), yielding a polycrystalline film consisting of 10–50nm sized grains. After annealing at 600°C, a small fraction of monoclinic phase was detected in addition to the tetragonal phase. Sulphur signals were visible in energy-dispersive X-ray spectra of as-grown and of annealed films, with a reduced sulphur content after annealing. Electron-beam irradiation also induced crystallization of amorphous material in as-grown films to give t-ZrO2; in this case the grains forming the polycrystalline film were only 5–10 nm in size.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130622123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in precipitate distribution during the low-stress creep of a hydrided magnesium-zirconium alloy","authors":"K. McNee, G. W. Greenwood, H. Jones","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240065","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Microstructural changes occurring in hydrided Mg-Zr alloy (ZR55) during creep in the stress range 1.7–9.5 MPa at temperatures between 673 and 733 K have been critically examined by optical microscopy and by scanning electron microscopy. Particular attention has been given to the distribution of precipitates with respect to the grain boundaries to elucidate the operative mechanism of deformation. Geometrical features of the formation of precipitate-denuded zones and of the concurrent accumulation of precipitates have been explored in relation to the conditions of creep and the direction of tensile stress. Additional information has been obtained from microanalysis within the grains and near grain boundaries. Clear evidence is provided that, at the lower stress levels, all such microstructural changes are consistent with those expected from a deformation mechanism controlled by diffusional flow. The measured strain rates, however, exceeded those estimated from diffusional creep theory in this alloy and the microstructural observations provide some indication of reasons for this discrepancy.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"43 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113954205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considerations of the double-cross-slip mechanism for basal and rhombohedral twinning in sapphire (α-Al2O3)","authors":"A. He, K. Lagerlöf, J. Castaing, A. Heuer","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240070","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Several different dislocation models have been proposed to explain basal and rhombohedral twinning in sapphire (α-Al2O3). To provide evidence for these models, sapphire samples deformed under hydrostatic confining pressures and containing both basal and rhombohedral twins were characterized using conventional transmission eletron microscopy (TEM) techniques. We found that perfect prism dislocations with a [1010] Burgers vector had dissociated into three ⅓[1010] partials in such a way that these dislocations acted as twinning partials for a basal twin and that all three partials lay in the twin boundary. For the case of rhombohedral twinning, a twin was found which had one flat boundary and one boundary that showed wavy curvature. These TEM observations are only consistent with the type of double-cross-slip twinning mechanism first proposed by Pirouz for silicon.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"507 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134450385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crystal structure and chemical bonding of the high-pressure phase of MgAl2O4 from first-principles calculations","authors":"C. Fang, G. With","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240072","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract First-principles calculations using density functional theory and the pseudopotential method have been performed for the crystal structure and phase relationship of MgAl2O4 and the binary components (MgO and α-A12O3). Calculations show that the spinel MgAl2O4 first decomposes into MgO and A12O3, and then the binary components react again into the high-pressure form of MgAl2O4 (hp-MgAl2O4) at higher pressures. The influence of different factors (temperature, structural disordering, etc.) has been taken into account. It was found that hp-MgAl2O4 has a smaller volume and a higher bulk modulus than those of spinel phase. The calculated results are in agreement with the experiments. The chemical bonding and physical properties of hp-MgAl2O4 are addressed.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127129686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction of a piezoelectric screw dislocation with an insulating crack","authors":"Tong-Yi Zhang, Tianhong Wang, M. Zhao","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240067","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The electrical and mechanical fields induced by a piezoelectric screw dislocation near an electrically insulating elliptical cavity in a piezoelectric material are derived through the image dislocation approach by considering the electric field inside the cavity. When the cavity is reduced to a crack, three outcomes are possible. The three outcomes correspond to three different electrical boundary conditions along the crack faces, depending on the α/β; ratio, where α; is the ratio of the minor semiaxis to the major semiaxis of the ellipse and β; is the ratio of the dielectric constant of the cavity to the effective dielectric constant of the piezoelectric material. The crack is electrically impermeable when α/β; → ∞ the crack becomes electrically permeable as α/β; → 0. Since the minimum of the dielectric constant has a finite non-zero value and a real crack also has a non-zero width, the α/β; ratio will generally have a finite non-zero value, resulting in a semi-impermeable crack. Furthermore, the difference in the electric boundary conditions leads to great differences in the image force acting on the dislocation, in the intensity factors and in the J integral for crack propagation induced by the dislocation.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132684608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dislocation motion in a random solid solution","authors":"M. Zaiser","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The thermally activated motion of a dislocation through an array of randomly distributed solute atoms is studied. The influence of fluctuations in the solute density on the activation energy for dislocation motion is investigated, and the stress dependences of the effective activation energy and the activation volume are determined. It is shown that, in creep deformation, fluctuations in the activation energies may lead to a creep strain which increases with time according to a power law, with an exponent that increases linearly with increasing temperature. Implications of the calculated activation energy spectrum for low-frequency internal friction are discussed.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133058230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction of lattice dislocations with the α-γ interphase interface in a stainless steel bicrystal","authors":"A. Taisne, B. Décamps, L. Priester","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240066","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The elementary mechanisms of deformation under fatigue stress are analysed in a stainless steel bicrystal by transmission electron microscopy. Attention is paid to the interaction between lattice dislocations and a ferrite-austenite interface oriented very near the Kurdjumov-Sachs orientation relationship. Results differ according to whether the notch is located in the α phase or in the γ phase. Only in the bicrystal notched in the α phase was transmission of dislocations across the interface into the γ-phase observed. A possible correlation between the microscopic observations and the fatigue behaviour of the bicrystal is discussed.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129811645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}