Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 56, Issue 14, Pages 3699-3707Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2008.04.006
Keywords
magnesium; neutron diffraction; deformation twinning; internal strain
Funding
- National Science foundation [EEC-9527527, DMR-0231320]
- Office of Basic Energy Science (DOE) [FWP 06SCPE401]
- United States Department of Energy
- Office of Basic Energy Science - Materials Science [W-7405-ENG-36]
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A study of the internal strain (stress) evolution during cyclic deformation dominated by {10 (1) over bar2} < 10 (1) over bar1 > twinning and detwinning mechanisms within a magnesium alloy, ZK60A, was conducted using in situ neutron diffraction. It is shown that once the matrix grains twin, the (00.2) matrix and twin grains are relaxed relative to the neighbors. This load redistribution between the soft- and hard-grain orientations is a result of plastic anisotropy. The twins which formed during the initial compression sustain a tensile stress along the c-axis, when the applied compressive stress is less than similar to 80 MPa upon unloading. This local (intergranular) tensile stress is hypothesized to be effective for driving the detwinning event under a macroscopic compressive field along the c-axis. The activation stresses, 15 and 6 MPa, respectively, for the {10 (1) over bar2} < 10 (1) over bar1 > extension twinning and detwinning, are approximated, based on the relaxation of the internal stresses in the matrix and twin grains. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc.
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