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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 528, Issue 6, Pages 2532-2537Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2010.12.015
Keywords
Cu-Fe composites; Thermal instability; Rayleigh perturbation; Coarsening theory
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- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2007AA03Z519]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51004038, 50901019]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [N100609004]
- 111 Project of China [B07015]
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The thermal instability of the Fe fibers in the heavily deformed Cu-12.8 wt.%Fe composites is investigated experimentally and numerically. The fiber evolution is characterized by a field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The results show that the dominant instability of the Fe fibers is the longitudinal boundary splitting which is determined by the greater cross sectional aspect ratio (width/thickness, w/t) and the larger ratio of boundary to interfacial energy (gamma(B)/gamma(S)). The longitudinal boundary splitting makes the ribbon-like Fe fibers evolve into a series of cylindrical fibers. Then the cylindrical Fe fibers undergo the instability process in terms of the breakup, growth and coarsening concurrently. The breakup times are accurately predicted by the Rayleigh perturbation model. The growth process primarily contributes to the higher increasing rate of the fiber radius during isothermal annealing at 700 degrees C than that calculated by the coarsening theory developed for cylindrical fibers, since the Cu-matrix of composites is highly supersaturated after casting/cold-working process. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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