Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages 164-179Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2019.04.020
Keywords
Dislocations; Polycrystalline material; Electron microscopy; Mechanical testing; Magnesium alloy
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB0701203]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51631006, 51671127]
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Addition of a small amount of Ca improves the ductility of Mg alloys. However, the mechanism underlying this effect is not well understood. In this work, tensile testing of an extruded Mg 0.47 wt% Ca alloy was conducted inside a scanning electron microscope. Electron back scattered diffraction-based slip trace analysis was performed to study in-grain slip activities at 1%, 2%, 4%, 8%, and 16% tensile strain. While the majority of the grains were deformed by {0001} < 11<(2)over bar>0> basal slip, slip lines from {1 (1) over bar 00} prismatic planes and {1 (1) over bar 01} pyramidal I planes were also frequently observed, and their fractions increased with strain. Ex situ transmission electron microscopy indicated that the pyramidal I slip lines were associated with < a > dislocations instead of < c + a > dislocations. From Schmid factor analysis, the critical resolved shear stresses of prismatic slip and pyramidal < a > slip are approximately twice that of basal slip in this Mg Ca alloy. The enhanced activity of non-basal < a > slip improved the material's ductility. Our first-principles calculations found that solute Ca atoms would reduce the unstable stacking fault energy for all slip modes.
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