Multiple slip in bicrystals

Multiple slip in bicrystals

ACTA 216 not appear to be necessary METALLURGICA, for the ensuing analysis. One may proceed further, then, and ask: matching answer is not a sui...

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ACTA

216

not appear to be necessary

METALLURGICA,

for the ensuing analysis.

One may proceed further, then, and ask: matching answer

is not a suitable appears

at the

criterion,

moment

expression only in thermodynamic

to

if strain

what is?

The

be capable

terms.

of

When one of

several adjacent grain boundary

crystals deforms, the energy of the momentarily is raised. The atoms

comprising

transition

the

zone

must

relieve this energy by slip or actual gliding,

or

increase

the

then

(configurational)

enough to offset the gain in energy.

either

grain-boundary entropy

Thus new slip

VOL.

6,

single crystal strained

as

1958

and more like that of a crystal in

equation

in the immediate “additional”

(3).

vicinity

con-

It is usually

of the boundary

only

that the

slip markings are seen.

It is, of course, true that the slip systems actually utilized may vary from place to place along the boundary. Macroscopic continuity conditions alone can

only

lead

to

requirements

number of systems.

on

Our experimental

that the choice of systems is dictated conditions,

the

minimum

results indicate by microscopic

and these could vary along the boundary.

systems are activated in adjacent crystals and/or the disordered region increases its extent, i.e. the

As Frankel points out, the use of macroscopic continuity arguments was in no way essential to the

effective

analysis of our results.

“thickness”

of

the

grain boundary

must

increase. University of California

J. P. FRANKEL

Reference 1. B. CHALMERS Metal Interfaces p. 158. Amer. Sot. Metals (1952) for a discussion of strain inhomogeneity. * Received 1957.

September

3, 1957;

are helpful in understanding

conditions

multiple

defines conditions,

Los Angeles, Calif.

in revised form October 7,

We feel, however,

arguments

slip is necessary.

that such

under what Equation

satisfied by symmetric

special bicrystals, under which macroscopic itself requires no “additional” slip.

(4)

and other continuity

J. D. LIVINQ.STON General Electric Research Laboratory Schenectady, New York B. CHALMERS

Multiple

Harvard University, Cambridge

Slip in Bicrystals*

Massachusetts

Inasmuch as our macroscopic treatment of deformation neglected microscopic inhomogeneities such as slip bands,

it is clear that its conclusions

limited to strains observed

must be

on a scale large compared

to slip-line displacements and spacings. scale, macroscopic discontinuities in

On such a the

strain

References 1. S. K. TUNG and R. MADIIIN Trans.Amer. Inst. Min. (Metall.) Engrs. 209, 905 (1957). 2. F. E. HAUSER, C. D. STARR, L. TIETZ and J. E. DORN Trans.AmeT. Sot. Met&. 47, 102 (1955). * Received

October 24, 1957.

components of equation (3) of our paper would be observable as “grain boundary shearing”. Reference marks drawn

across

boundaries

before

would be displaced macroscopically

deformation

after deformation.

Sur l’oxydation

Such behavior is indeed observed at elevated temperatures and low strain rates,(l) but is not believed to be important

under

f.c.c. meta1s.t an important

non-creep

conditions,

Where grain boundary mode

of deformation,

at least

in

shearing is not the “transition

zone” of Fig. 1 of the above note as applied to the strain components of equation (3) must be macroscopic in extent. That is to say, macroscopic will be observed.

continuity

L’oxydation fait

l’objet

lesquelles celles

du cuivre de

il

t&s

dans l’air ou l’oxygkne

nombreuses

faudrait

de Pilling

de Wagner

du Cuivre dans 1’Intervalle 600-lOOO”C* t

titer

et Griinewald,c3)

de Valensi,c5) de Tylecote,(6) ses collaborateurs.(‘) Cependant,

tout

et Bedworth,

recherches

a

parmi

particuli&rement de Feitknecht,c2)

de BBnard et Talbot,t4) et de Fassell, Jr. et de

s’il a Bt6 reconnu que la loi parabolique

Macroscopic continuity was assumed in our treatment, but macroscopic homogeneity of strain over the

classique r6git en g&&al

entire bicrystal was not. As one moves progressively nearer the bicrystal boundary, the deformation presumably becomes less like that of an unconstrained

infhrieures & 1000°C est constitu6e par deux couches superpos6es de Cu,O et de CuO, de nombreux points restaient B pr&iser, et tout particulibrement la loi

t Grain boundary shearing has been reported in polycrystalline magnesium at room temperature,@ although it was suggested that it was possibly always preceded by local fracture.

t Cette recherche r&alis&e en liaison avec M. le Professeur J. BQnard a fait l’objet du contrat no 43 entre l’auteur et le “Consejo de Investigaci6n Cientifica” de l’Universit6 de ConcepcZn (Chili).

que la pellicule

l’ensemble

d’oxydation

pour

du ph&omi?ne

et

les temperatures