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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 618, Issue -, Pages 558-562Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2014.09.065
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Twinning; Variant selection; Trace analysis; Magnesium alloy; EBSD
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Project) [2013CB632201, 2013CB632204]
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{10 - 12}[10 - 11] twinning plays an important role in plasticity of Mg alloys. Therefore, the reliable identification of twin variant is necessary for understanding the deformation mechanism of Mg alloys. This work aims to investigate the influence of observation plane on the identification of twin variant by twin plane trace and misorientation analysis using the electron backscatter diffraction technique. The twin characteristics in compression of a basal textured AZ31 alloy were examined on two different observation planes. The results indicate that the two geometrically favorable twin variants always have a low angle between their traces on the plane perpendicular to the c-axis, while a high angle range of 79-86 degrees on the plane parallel to the c-axis and compression direction. Such high trace angle in the latter case makes it easy to unambiguously identify the active twin variant. Moreover, the reliability of variant identification is not affected by the number of activated twin variants and their misorientations. Further analysis indicates that the optimum observation plane on rolled and extruded Mg alloys is always the plane parallel to the c-axis and compression direction. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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