Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 132-144Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.05.007
Keywords
Crystalline/amorphous nanolaminates; Ductility; Strain rate sensitivity; Crystallization; Deformation
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51321003, 51322104, 51201123]
- 973 Program of China [2010CB631003]
- 111 Project of China [B06025]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Tengfei Scholar project
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2012M521765]
- Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [2015JM5158]
- Shaanxi Province Postdoctoral Scientific Research Project
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The hardness, tensile ductility, and strain rate sensitivity of crystalline Cu/amorphous Cu-Zr nanolaminates (Cu/Cu-Zr C/A NLs) have been measured as a function of modulation ratio (eta). With reducing eta, the tensile ductility first decreased and subsequently increased, leaving a minimum value at eta similar to 1.0. However, the strain rate sensitivity (m) increased monotonically with reducing eta and spanned from a negative value at eta over similar to 1.0 to a positive one at eta below similar to 1.0, indicating a tunable strain rate sensitivity in engineered C/A NLs. Careful microstructural examinations reveal that a deformation-induced devitrification (DID) in the amorphous nanolayers is the key factor responsible for the aforementioned experimental phenomena. For thinner amorphous nanolayers, the DID becomes more intense. The size-dependent DID drives the pure Cu-Zr amorphous single layer films to (i) exhibit a thickness-dependent tensile ductility opposite to that of pure Cu single layer films, and (ii) have a negative m contrary to the positive m in their pure Cu counterpart. When the two layers are engineered into C/A NLs, a competition exists between the two inverse constituent nanolayers. This competition is strongly eta-dependent, resulting in a non-monotonic evolution in tensile ductility and significant change in m when eta spans from 9.0 to 0.1. The fracture mode of the C/A NLs transformed from shearing at small eta to opening at large eta; this can be rationalized by considering the competition between the two constituent nanolayers as a microcrack initiator. In addition, the strengthening mechanisms of the C/A NLs were analyzed and the eta-dependent hardness was quantitatively described using a modified mechanistic model. (C) 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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