Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 192, Issue -, Pages 60-66Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2020.03.035
Keywords
Contraction twins; MD simulations; Crystallographic analysis; TEM
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation-Outstanding Youth Foundation [51771162, 51971194, 11802083]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province [A201910002]
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Twin interface characteristics play a crucial role in elucidating twin propagation, twin-twin and twin-dislocation interactions, and then affect their mechanical properties. Herein, focusing on magnesium as a model of a hexagonal close-packed structure, we investigate the structural characteristics of {10 (1) over bar1} contraction twin, depending on crystallographic analysis, molecular dynamics simulations and transmission electron microscopy observations. The geometrical features reveal that it is preferential to form acute twin boundaries during the processes of twin-twin interactions. Subsequently, the dynamics simulations results demonstrate that the propagation process of {10 (1) over bar1} contraction twin is mainly related to the migration of {10 (1) over bar3} twin boundaries in twin tip, and its thickening process is dominantly associated with the movement of multiple-layered steps. Additionally, two twin-twin interaction modes- tip-twin boundaries crossing transmission and tip-tip collision-have been successfully constructed, dependent on the preferential acute growth mode of contraction twins. Finally, typically structural characteristics on both free-growth of single contraction twin and twin-twin interactions have been confirmed in the ultrahigh pressure pure magnesium by transmission electron microscopy observations. This work clarifies fundamental physics of {10 (1) over bar1} contraction twins in hexagonal close-packed metals, which can also be applied to other systems to explain twin strengthening mechanisms. (C) 2020 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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