Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 510-11, Issue -, Pages 7-13Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2008.04.110
Keywords
Creep; Recovery; Generation of dislocations; Dislocation dipoles; Dislocation annihilation; Subgrain boundaries; Knitting; Migration of subgrain boundaries; High-angle boundaries; Ultrafine grains; Phase boundaries; Particle hardening
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The predominance of phenomenological power laws in creep of crystalline materials indicates that the dislocation mechanics of inelastic deformation of crystalline materials has not yet been fully understood. We review the progress towards a general and comprehensive model. In general, dislocation-mediated plasticity leads to generation of dislocations in the crystal interior. Creep, i.e. plasticity at constant stress, continues only if dislocations are able to disappear again (dislocation recovery). A simple model of creep of subgrain-free materials reproduces characteristic features of steady-state creep, but shows significant quantitative deficiencies, indicating that subgrain formation must not be neglected. It is proposed that migration of low-angle subgrain boundaries constitutes the process controlling creep in most cases of single- and multi-phase materials with conventional grain size. High-angle boundaries begin to play a significant role when their spacing d approaches the steady-state subgrain size w(infinity) developing in coarse-grained materials. Depending on the w(infinity)/d-ratio and deformation conditions, high-angle boundaries may harden or soften the material in the steady state of deformation. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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