Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 60, Issue 6-7, Pages 2637-2646Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2012.01.030
Keywords
Laves phase; Dislocation; Twin boundary; Fracture; Brittleness
Funding
- NSFC [51171189, 50771096]
- MoST of China [2009BC623705]
- CAS
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division of the US Department of Energy
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First-principles calculations, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) investigations and geometrical phase analysis of lattice strain based on HRTEM images have been carried out on C15 Cr2Nb Laves phase. Asymmetrical nanoscale regions with severe lattice distortion were observed in the vicinity of Shockley partial dislocation cores. These disturbed regions are the result of synchroshear inside the Nb-Cr-Nb triple layers. Reactions of dislocations with twin boundaries (TBs) also result in severe lattice distortion. The resulting local lattice distortion and perturbed strain field deleteriously impact dislocation-governed plasticity. First-principles calculations show that cleavage occurs preferentially between the single Cr layer and the Nb-Cr-Nb triple layer in these materials. TBs, which are on single Cr layers, nucleate and propagate cracks readily in Cr2Nb, as evidenced by the lattice dilatation along a TB interacting with one 60 degrees dislocation. The present study shows atomic level evidence on how crystal defects and their interactions influence the mechanical properties, especially the poor toughness at low temperatures, of C15 Cr2Nb. This provides new insights into the origin of low temperature brittleness of Laves compounds with complex structures. (C) 2012 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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