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The effects of microstructure on deformation twinning in Mg WE43

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2022.144189

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Twinning; Digital image correlation; Crystal plasticity; Deformation; Magnesium

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering [DE-SC0008637]
  2. National Science Foundation [ACI-1548562, TG-MSS160003]

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The interplay between microstructure and deformation twinning in a WE43-T6 Mg alloy under uniaxial compression was investigated. The study found a strong correlation between the nominal Schmid Factor and twin activation and variant selection, but it was not fully deterministic. The deformation twinning was also affected by existing slip and twinning in the neighboring grain and the m' value. The statistical analysis of CPFE simulations captured the effect of the nominal Schmid Factor.
The interplay between microstructure and deformation twinning in a WE43-T6 Mg alloy under uniaxial compression was investigated using a combination of scanning electron microscopy with digital image corre-lation (SEM-DIC) and crystal plasticity finite element (CPFE) simulation. To improve understanding of the sta-tistical characteristics of deformation twin formation, microstructural effects were characterized in over 1000 grains through metrics including the nominal Schmid Factor, grain size, geometric compatibility factor (m'), residual Burgers vector, and the strain accommodated by neighboring grains. There was a strong correlation between the nominal Schmid Factor and both twin activation and variant selection, but this was not fully deterministic. Deformation twinning also exhibited a strong dependence on existing slip and twinning in the neighboring grain and on the m' value. Within the range of grain sizes present in this condition, grain size was determined to have minimal effect on deformation twinning. Statistical analysis of CPFE simulations was used to further investigate microstructural effects on twinning, and qualitatively captured the effect of the nominal Schmid Factor.

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