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A fine-grained material (one that has small grains) is harder and stronger than one that is coarse grained, because the former has a greater total grain boundary area to impede dislocation motion. For many materials, the yield strength y varies with grain size according to

A further explanation of slip is simplified by treating the process in single crystals, then making the appropriate extension to polycrystalline materials. As mentioned previously, edge, screw, and mixed dislocations move in response to shear stresses applied along a slip plane and in a slip direction. As noted in Section 6.2, even though an applied stress may be pure tensile (or compressive), shear components exist at all but parallel or perpendicular alignments to the stress direction (Equation 6.4b). These are termed resolved shear stresses, and their magnitudes depend not only on the applied stress, but also on the orientation of both the slip plane and direction within that plane. Let represent the angle between the normal to the slip plane and the applied stress direction, and the angle between the slip and stress directions, as indicated in Figure 7.7; it can then be shown that for the resolved shear stress R

All metals and alloys contain some dislocations that were introduced during solidification, during plastic deformation, and as a consequence of thermal stresses that result from rapid cooling. The number of dislocations, or dislocation density in a material, is expressed as the total dislocation length per unit volume or, equivalently, the number of dislocations that intersect a unit area of a random section. The units of dislocation density are millimeters of dislocation per cubic millimeter or just per square millimeter. Dislocation densities as low as 103 mm2 are typically found in carefully solidified metal crystals. For heavily deformed metals, the density may run as high as 109 to 1010 mm2 . Heat-treating a deformed metal specimen can diminish the density to on the order of 105 to 106 mm2 . By way of contrast, a typical dislocation density for ceramic materials is between 102 and 104 mm2 ; also, for silicon single crystals used in integrated circuits the value normally lies between 0.1 and 1 mm2 .

Alloys are stronger than pure metals because impurity atoms that go into solid solution ordinarily impose lattice strains on the surrounding host atoms. Lattice strain field interactions between dislocations and these impurity atoms result, and, consequently, dislocation movement is restricted. For example, an impurity atom that is smaller than a host atom for which it substitutes exerts tensile strains on the surrounding crystal lattice, as illustrated in Figure 7.17a. Conversely, a larger

Also, during recrystallization, the mechanical properties that were changed as a result of cold working are restored to their precold-worked values; that is, the metal becomes softer and weaker, yet more ductile. Some heat treatments are designed to allow recrystallization to occur with these modifications in the mechanical characteristics (Section 11.7).

An energy is associated with grain boundaries, as explained in Section 4.6. As grains increase in size, the total boundary area decreases, yielding an attendant reduction in the total energy; this is the driving force for grain growth.

Another technique to strengthen and harden metals is alloying with impurity atoms that go into either substitutional or interstitial solid solution. Accordingly, this is called solid-solution strengthening. High-purity metals are almost always softer and weaker than alloys composed of the same base metal. Increasing the concentration of the impurity results in an attendant increase in tensile and yield strengths, as indicated in Figures 7.16a and 7.16b for nickel in copper; the dependence of ductility on nickel concentration is presented in Figure 7.16c.

As outlined earlier in this chapter, plastically deforming a polycrystalline metal specimen at temperatures that are low relative to its absolute melting temperature produces microstructural and property changes that include (1) a change in grain shape (Section 7.6), (2) strain hardening (Section 7.10), and (3) an increase in dislocation density (Section 7.3). Some fraction of the energy expended in deformation is stored in the metal as strain energy, which is associated with tensile, compressive, and shear zones around the newly created dislocations (Section 7.3). Furthermore, other properties such as electrical conductivity (Section 18.8) and corrosion resistance may be modified as a consequence of plastic deformation.

Chapter 6 explained that materials may experience two kinds of deformation: elastic and plastic. Plastic deformation is permanent, and strength and hardness are measures of a material's resistance to this deformation. On a microscopic scale, plastic deformation corresponds to the net movement of large numbers of atoms in response to an applied stress. During this process, interatomic bonds must be ruptured and then re-formed. In crystalline solids, plastic deformation most often involves the motion of dislocations, linear crystalline defects that were introduced in Section 4.5. This chapter discusses the characteristics of dislocations and their involvement in plastic deformation. Twinning, another process by which some metals plastically deform, is also treated. In addition, and probably most importantly, several techniques are presented for strengthening single-phase metals, the mechanisms of which are described in terms of dislocations. Finally, the latter sections of this chapter are concerned with recovery and recrystallization—processes that occur in plastically deformed metals, normally at elevated temperatures—and, in addition, grain growth

Consider, for example, the FCC crystal structure, a unit cell of which is shown in Figure 7.6a. There is a set of planes, the {111} family, all of which are closely packed. A (111)-type plane is indicated in the unit cell; in Figure 7.6b, this plane is positioned within the plane of the page, in which atoms are now represented as touching nearest neighbors

Deformation and slip in polycrystalline materials is somewhat more complex. Because of the random crystallographic orientations of the numerous grains, the direction of slip varies from one grain to another. For each, dislocation motion occurs along the slip system that has the most favorable orientation, as defined earlier. This is exemplified by a photomicrograph of a polycrystalline copper specimen that has been plastically deformed (Figure 7.10); before deformation the surface was polished. Slip lines1 are visible, and it appears that two slip systems operated for most of the grains, as evidenced by two sets of parallel yet intersecting sets of lines. Furthermore, variation in grain orientation is indicated by the difference in alignment of the slip lines for the several grains.

Dislocations do not move with the same degree of ease on all crystallographic planes of atoms and in all crystallographic directions. Ordinarily there is a preferred plane, and in that plane there are specific directions along which dislocation motion occurs. This plane is called the slip plane; it follows that the direction of movement is called the slip direction. This combination of the slip plane and the slip direction is termed the slip system. The slip system depends on the crystal structure of the metal and is such that the atomic distortion that accompanies the motion of a dislocation is a

During plastic deformation, the number of dislocations increases dramatically. We know that the dislocation density in a metal that has been highly deformed may be as high as 1010 mm2 . One important source of these new dislocations is existing dislocations, which multiply; furthermore, grain boundaries, as well as internal defects and surface irregularities such as scratches and nicks, which act as stress concentrations, may serve as dislocation formation sites during deformation.

During recovery, some of the stored internal strain energy is relieved by virtue of dislocation motion (in the absence of an externally applied stress), as a result of enhanced atomic diffusion at the elevated temperature. There is some reduction in the number of dislocations, and dislocation configurations (similar to that shown in Figure 4.8) are produced having low strain energies. In addition, physical properties such as electrical and thermal conductivities are recovered to their precold-worked states.

Early materials studies led to the computation of the theoretical strengths of perfect crystals, which were many times greater than those actually measured. During the 1930s it was theorized that this discrepancy in mechanical strengths could be explained by a type of linear crystalline defect that has since come to be known as a dislocation. Not until the 1950s, however, was the existence of such dislocation defects established by direct observation with the electron microscope. Since then, a theory of dislocations has evolved that explains many of the physical and mechanical phenomena in metals [as well as crystalline ceramics (Section 12.10)].

Edge and screw are the two fundamental dislocation types. In an edge dislocation, localized lattice distortion exists along the end of an extra half-plane of atoms, which also defines the dislocation line (Figure 4.3). A screw dislocation may be thought of as resulting from shear distortion; its dislocation line passes through the center of a spiral, atomic plane ramp (Figure 4.4). Many dislocations in crystalline materials have both edge and screw components; these are mixed dislocations (Figure 4.5)

Even after recovery is complete, the grains are still in a relatively high strain energy state. Recrystallization is the formation of a new set of strain-free and equiaxed grains (i.e., having approximately equal dimensions in all directions) that have low dislocation densities and are characteristic of the precold-worked condition. The driving force to produce this new grain structure is the difference in internal energy between the strained and unstrained material. The new grains form as very small nuclei and grow until they completely consume the parent material, processes that involve short-range diffusion. Several stages in the recrystallization process are represented in Figures 7.21a to 7.21d; in these photomicrographs, the small speckled grains are those that have recrystallized. Thus, recrystallization of coldworked metals may be used to refine the grain structure.

Figures 7.19a and 7.19b demonstrate how steel, brass, and copper increase in yield and tensile strength with increasing cold work. The price for this enhancement of hardness and strength is in the ductility of the metal. This is shown in Figure 7.19c, in which the ductility, in percent elongation, experiences a reduction with increasing percent cold work for the same three alloys. The influence of cold work on the stress-strain behavior of a low-carbon steel is shown in Figure 7.20; here stress-strain curves are plotted at 0%CW, 4%CW, and 24%CW.

Grain growth occurs by the migration of grain boundaries. Obviously, not all grains can enlarge, but large ones grow at the expense of small ones that shrink. Thus, the average grain size increases with time, and at any particular instant there will exist a range of grain sizes. Boundary motion is just the short-range diffusion of atoms from one side of the boundary to the other. The directions of boundary movement and atomic motion are opposite to each other, as shown in Figure 7.24

Gross plastic deformation of a polycrystalline specimen corresponds to the comparable distortion of the individual grains by means of slip. During deformation, mechanical integrity and coherency are maintained along the grain boundaries; that is, the grain boundaries usually do not come apart or open up. As a consequence, each individual grain is constrained, to some degree, in the shape it may assume by its neighboring grains. The manner in which grains distort as a result of gross plastic deformation is indicated in Figure 7.11. Before deformation the grains are equiaxed, or have approximately the same dimension in all directions. For this particular deformation, the grains become elongated along the direction in which the specimen was extended.

Important to the understanding of strengthening mechanisms is the relation between dislocation motion and mechanical behavior of metals. Because macroscopic plastic deformation corresponds to the motion of large numbers of dislocations, the ability of a metal to plastically deform depends on the ability of dislocations to move. Because hardness and strength (both yield and tensile) are related to the ease with which plastic deformation can be made to occur, by reducing the mobility of 7.7 Deformation by Twinning • 211 (a) (b) Slip planes Twin Twin planes Figure 7.13 For a single crystal subjected to a shear stress , (a) deformation by slip; (b) deformation by twinning. JWCL187_ch07_197-233.qxd 9/15/09 9:32 PM Page 211 dislocations, the mechanical strength may be enhanced; that is, greater mechanical forces will be required to initiate plastic deformation. In contrast, the more unconstrained the dislocation motion, the greater is the facility with which a metal may deform, and the softer and weaker it becomes.Virtually all strengthening techniques rely on this simple principle: Restricting or hindering dislocation motion renders a material harder and stronger.

In addition to slip, plastic deformation in some metallic materials can occur by the formation of mechanical twins, or twinning. The concept of a twin was introduced in Section 4.6; that is, a shear force can produce atomic displacements such that on one side of a plane (the twin boundary), atoms are located in mirrorimage positions of atoms on the other side. The manner in which this is accomplished is demonstrated in Figure 7.12. Here, open circles represent atoms that did not move, and dashed and solid circles represent original and final positions,

In response to an applied tensile or compressive stress, slip in a single crystal commences on the most favorably oriented slip system when the resolved shear stress reaches some critical value, termed the critical resolved shear stress crss; it represents the minimum shear stress required to initiate slip and is a property of the material that determines when yielding occurs. The single crystal plastically deforms or yields when R(max) crss, and the magnitude of the applied stress required to initiate yielding (i.e., the yield strength y) is

In summary, we have just discussed the three mechanisms that may be used to strengthen and harden single-phase metal alloys: strengthening by grain size reduction, solid-solution strengthening, and strain hardening. Of course they may be used in conjunction with one another; for example, a solid-solution strengthened alloy may also be strain hardened

In this expression, termed the Hall-Petch equation, d is the average grain diameter, and s0 and ky are constants for a particular material. Note that Equation 7.7 is not valid for both very large (i.e., coarse) grain and extremely fine grain polycrystalline materials. Figure 7.15 demonstrates the yield strength dependence on grain size for a brass alloy. Grain size may be regulated by the rate of solidification from the liquid phase, and also by plastic deformation followed by an appropriate heat treatment, as discussed in Section 7.13.

It is sometimes convenient to express the degree of plastic deformation as percent cold work rather than as strain. Percent cold work (%CW) is defined as (7.8) where A0 is the original area of the cross section that experiences deformation and Ad is the area after deformation

It should also be mentioned that grain size reduction improves not only strength, but also the toughness of many alloys. Small-angle grain boundaries (Section 4.6) are not effective in interfering with the slip process because of the slight crystallographic misalignment across the boundary. On the other hand, twin boundaries (Section 4.6) will effectively block slip and increase the strength of the material. Boundaries between two different phases are also impediments to movements of dislocations; this is important in the strengthening of more complex alloys.The sizes and shapes of the constituent phases significantly affect the mechanical properties of multiphase alloys; these are the topics of discussion in Sections 10.7, 10.8, and 16.1.

It should also be noted that the strengthening effects due to grain size reduction and strain hardening can be eliminated or at least reduced by an elevatedtemperature heat treatment (Sections 7.12 and 7.13). Conversely, solid-solution strengthening is unaffected by heat treatment.

It should be mentioned that, for high-angle grain boundaries, it may not be the case that dislocations traverse grain boundaries during deformation; rather, dislocations tend to "pile up" (or back up) at grain boundaries. These pile-ups introduce stress concentrations ahead of their slip planes, which generate new dislocations in adjacent grains.

Mechanical twinning occurs in metals that have BCC and HCP crystal structures, at low temperatures, and at high rates of loading (shock loading), conditions under which the slip process is restricted; that is, there are few operable slip systems. The amount of bulk plastic deformation from twinning is normally small relative to that resulting from slip. However, the real importance of twinning lies with the accompanying crystallographic reorientations; twinning may place new slip systems in orientations that are favorable relative to the stress axis such that the slip process can now take place.

Metallurgical and materials engineers are often called on to design alloys having high strengths yet some ductility and toughness; ordinarily, ductility is sacrificed when an alloy is strengthened. Several hardening techniques are at the disposal of an engineer, and frequently alloy selection depends on the capacity of a material to be tailored with the mechanical characteristics required for a particular application.

Metals with FCC or BCC crystal structures have a relatively large number of slip systems (at least 12). These metals are quite ductile because extensive plastic deformation is normally possible along the various systems. Conversely, HCP metals, having few active slip systems, are normally quite brittle.

Plastic deformation corresponds to the motion of large numbers of dislocations. An edge dislocation moves in response to a shear stress applied in a direction perpendicular to its line; the mechanics of dislocation motion are represented in Figure 7.1. Let the initial extra half-plane of atoms be plane A. When the shear stress is applied as indicated (Figure 7.1a), plane A is forced to the right; this in turn pushes the top halves of planes B, C, D, and so on, in the same direction. If the applied shear stress is of sufficient magnitude, the interatomic bonds of plane B are severed along the shear plane, and the upper half of plane B becomes the extra half-plane as plane A links up with the bottom half of plane B (Figure 7.1b). This process is subsequently repeated for the other planes, such that the extra half-plane, by discrete steps, moves from left to right by successive and repeated breaking of

Polycrystalline metals are stronger than their single-crystal equivalents, which means that greater stresses are required to initiate slip and the attendant yielding. This is, to a large degree, also a result of geometrical constraints that are imposed on the grains during deformation. Even though a single grain may be favorably oriented with the applied stress for slip, it cannot deform until the adjacent and less favorably oriented grains are capable of slip also; this requires a higher applied stress level

Recrystallization is a process the extent of which depends on both time and temperature. The degree (or fraction) of recrystallization increases with time, as may be noted in the photomicrographs shown in Figures 7.21a-d. The explicit time dependence of recrystallization is addressed in more detail near the end of Section 10.3

Recrystallization proceeds more rapidly in pure metals than in alloys. During recrystallization, grain-boundary motion occurs as the new grain nuclei form and then grow. It is believed that impurity atoms preferentially segregate at and interact with these recrystallized grain boundaries so as to diminish their (i.e., grain bound

Several characteristics of dislocations are important with regard to the mechanical properties of metals. These include strain fields that exist around dislocations, which are influential in determining the mobility of the dislocations, as well as their ability to multiply

Slip and twinning deformations are compared in Figure 7.13 for a single crystal that is subjected to a shear stress . Slip ledges are shown in Figure 7.13a, the formation of which was described in Section 7.5; for twinning, the shear deformation is homogeneous (Figure 7.13b). These two processes differ from each other in several respects. First, for slip, the crystallographic orientation above and below the slip plane is the same both before and after the deformation; for twinning, there will be a reorientation across the twin plane. In addition, slip occurs in distinct atomic spacing multiples, whereas the atomic displacement for twinning is less than the interatomic separation.

Slip occurs along -type directions within the {111} planes, as indicated by arrows in Figure 7.6. Hence, represents the slip plane and direction combination, or the slip system for FCC. Figure 7.6b demonstrates that a given slip plane may contain more than a single slip direction. Thus, several slip systems may exist for a particular crystal structure; the number of independent slip systems represents the different possible combinations of slip planes and directions. For example, for face-centered cubic, there are 12 slip systems: four unique {111} planes and, within each plane, three independent directions

Strain hardening is demonstrated in a stress-strain diagram presented earlier (Figure 6.17). Initially, the metal with yield strength is plastically deformed to point D. The stress is released, then reapplied with a resultant new yield strength, . The metal has thus become stronger during the process because is greater than . The strain-hardening phenomenon is explained on the basis of dislocation- dislocation strain field interactions similar to those discussed in Section 7.3. The dislocation density in a metal increases with deformation or cold work, because of

Strain hardening is demonstrated in a stress-strain diagram presented earlier (Figure 6.17). Initially, the metal with yield strength is plastically deformed topoint D. The stress is released, then reapplied with a resultant new yield strength, . The metal has thus become stronger during the process because is greater than . The strain-hardening phenomenon is explained on the basis of dislocation- dislocation strain field interactions similar to those discussed in Section 7.3. The dislocation density in a metal increases with deformation or cold work, because of

Strain hardening is often utilized commercially to enhance the mechanical properties of metals during fabrication procedures. The effects of strain hardening may be removed by an annealing heat treatment, as discussed in Section 11.7. In passing, for the mathematical expression relating true stress and strain, Equation 6.19, the parameter n is called the strain-hardening exponent, which is a measure of the ability of a metal to strain harden; the larger its magnitude, the greater the strain hardening for a given amount of plastic strain.

Strain hardening is the phenomenon whereby a ductile metal becomes harder and stronger as it is plastically deformed. Sometimes it is also called work hardening, or, because the temperature at which deformation takes place is "cold" relative to the absolute melting temperature of the metal, cold working. Most metals strain harden at room temperature.

The Burgers vector concept was introduced in Section 4.5, and denoted by a b for edge, screw, and mixed dislocations in Figures 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5, respectively. With regard to the process of slip, a Burgers vector's direction corresponds to a dislocation's slip direction, whereas its magnitude is equal to the unit slip distance (or interatomic separation in this direction). Of course, both the direction and the magnitude of b will depend on crystal structure, and it is convenient to specify a Burgers vector in terms of unit cell edge length (a) and crystallographic direction indices. Burgers vectors for face-centered cubic, body-centered cubic, and hexagonal closepacked crystal structures are given as follows:

The influence of temperature is demonstrated in Figure 7.22, which plots tensile strength and ductility (at room temperature) of a brass alloy as a function of the temperature and for a constant heat treatment time of 1 h. The grain structures found at the various stages of the process are also presented schematically.

The mechanical properties at room temperature of a fine-grained metal are usually superior (i.e., higher strength and toughness) to those of coarse-grained ones. If the grain structure of a single-phase alloy is coarser than that desired, refinement may be accomplished by plastically deforming the material, then subjecting it to a recrystallization heat treatment, as described previously.

The minimum stress necessary to introduce yielding occurs when a single crystal is oriented such that under these conditions, (7.5) For a single-crystal specimen that is stressed in tension, deformation will be as in Figure 7.8, where slip occurs along a number of equivalent and most favorably oriented planes and directions at various positions along the specimen length. This slip deformation forms as small steps on the surface of the single crystal that are sy 2tcrss f l 45°; sy tcrss 1cos f cos l2 max tR1max2 s1cos f cos l2 max tR s cos f cos l 7.5 Slip in Single Crystals • 205 F F A Slip direction Normal to slip plane Figure 7.7 Geometrical relationships between the tensile axis, slip plane, and slip direction used in calculating the resolved shear stress for a single crystal. Resolved shear stress—dependence on applied stress and orientation of stress direction relative to slip plane normal and slip direction critical resolved shear stress Yield strength of a single crystal— dependence on the critical resolved shear stress and the orientation of most favorably oriented slip system JWCL187_ch07_197-233.qxd 9/15/09 9:32 PM Page 205 parallel to one another and loop around the circumference of the specimen as indicated in Figure 7.8. Each step results from the movement of a large number of dislocations along the same slip plane. On the surface of a polished single-crystal specimen, these steps appear as lines, which are called slip lines. A zinc single crystal that has been plastically deformed to the degree that these slip markings are discernible is shown in Figure 7.9.

The motion of a screw dislocation in response to the applied shear stress is shown in Figure 7.2b; the direction of movement is perpendicular to the stress direction. For an edge, motion is parallel to the shear stress. However, the net plastic deformation for the motion of both dislocation types is the same (see Figure 7.2). The direction of motion of the mixed dislocation line is neither perpendicular nor parallel to the applied stress, but lies somewhere in between.

The possible slip systems for BCC and HCP crystal structures are listed in Table 7.1. For each of these structures, slip is possible on more than one family of planes (e.g., {110}, {211}, and {321} for BCC). For metals having these two crystal structures, some slip systems are often operable only at elevated temperatures.

The present discussion is confined to strengthening mechanisms for single-phase metals by grain size reduction, solid-solution alloying, and strain hardening. Deformation and strengthening of multiphase alloys are more complicated, involving concepts beyond the scope of the present discussion; Chapter 10 and Section 11.9 treat techniques that are used to strengthen multiphase alloys.

The process by which plastic deformation is produced by dislocation motion is termed slip; the crystallographic plane along which the dislocation line traverses is the slip plane, as indicated in Figure 7.1. Macroscopic plastic deformation simply corresponds to permanent deformation that results from the movement of dislocations, or slip, in response to an applied shear stress, as represented in Figure 7.2a

The resistance to slip is greater when impurity atoms are present because the overall lattice strain must increase if a dislocation is torn away from them. Furthermore, the same lattice strain interactions (Figures 7.17b and 7.18b) will exist between impurity atoms and dislocations that are in motion during plastic deformation. Thus, a greater applied stress is necessary to first initiate and then continue plastic deformation for solid-solution alloys, as opposed to pure metals; this is evidenced by the enhancement of strength and hardness.

The size of the grains, or average grain diameter, in a polycrystalline metal influences the mechanical properties. Adjacent grains normally have different crystallographic orientations and, of course, a common grain boundary, as indicated in Figure 7.14. During plastic deformation, slip or dislocation motion must take place across this common boundary—say, from grain A to grain B in Figure 7.14. The grain boundary acts as a barrier to dislocation motion for two reasons: 1. Because the two grains are of different orientations, a dislocation passing into grain B will have to change its direction of motion; this becomes more difficult as the crystallographic misorientation increases. 2. The atomic disorder within a grain boundary region will result in a discontinuity of slip planes from one grain into the other

The strain fields surrounding dislocations in close proximity to one another may interact such that forces are imposed on each dislocation by the combined interactions of all its neighboring dislocations. For example, consider two edge dislocations that have the same sign and the identical slip plane, as represented in Figure 7.5a. The compressive and tensile strain fields for both lie on the same side of the slip plane; the strain field interaction is such that there exists between these two isolated dislocations a mutual repulsive force that tends to move them apart. On the other hand, two dislocations of opposite sign and having the same slip plane will be attracted to one another, as indicated in Figure 7.5b, and dislocation annihilation will occur when they meet. That is, the two extra half-planes of atoms will align and become a complete plane. Dislocation interactions are possible between edge, screw, and/or mixed dislocations, and for a variety of orientations.These strain fields and associated forces are important in the strengthening mechanisms for metals

These properties and structures may revert back to the precold-worked states by appropriate heat treatment (sometimes termed an annealing treatment). Such restoration results from two different processes that occur at elevated temperatures: recovery and recrystallization, which may be followed by grain growth.

When metals are plastically deformed, some fraction of the deformation energy (approximately 5%) is retained internally; the remainder is dissipated as heat. The major portion of this stored energy is as strain energy associated with dislocations. Consider the edge dislocation represented in Figure 7.4.As already mentioned, some atomic lattice distortion exists around the dislocation line because of the presence of the extra half-plane of atoms. As a consequence, there are regions in which compressive, tensile, and shear lattice strains are imposed on the neighboring atoms. For example, atoms immediately above and adjacent to the dislocation line are squeezed together. As a result, these atoms may be thought of as experiencing a compressive strain relative to atoms positioned in the perfect crystal and far removed from the dislocation; this is illustrated in Figure 7.4. Directly below the half-plane, the effect is just the opposite; lattice atoms sustain an imposed tensile strain, which is as shown. Shear strains also exist in the vicinity of the edge dislocation. For a screw dislocation, lattice strains are pure shear only. These lattice distortions may be considered to be strain fields that radiate from the dislocation line. The strains extend into the surrounding atoms, and their magnitude decreases with radial distance from the dislocation.

With continued extension of a single crystal, both the number of slip lines and the slip step width will increase. For FCC and BCC metals, slip may eventually begin along a second slip system, the system that is next most favorably oriented with the tensile axis. Furthermore, for HCP crystals having few slip systems, if the stress axis for the most favorable slip system is either perpendicular to the slip direction ( 90) or parallel to the slip plane ( 90), the critical resolved shear stress will be zero. For these extreme orientations the crystal ordinarily fractures rather than deforming plastically

ary) mobilities; this results in a decrease of the recrystallization rate and raises the recrystallization temperature, sometimes quite substantially. For pure metals, the recrystallization temperature is normally 0.4Tm, where Tm is the absolute melting temperature; for some commercial alloys it may run as high as 0.7Tm. Recrystallization and melting temperatures for a number of metals and alloys are listed in Table 7.2.

bonds and shifting by interatomic distances of upper half-planes. Before and after the movement of a dislocation through some particular region of the crystal, the atomic arrangement is ordered and perfect; it is only during the passage of the extra half-plane that the lattice structure is disrupted. Ultimately this extra half-plane may emerge from the right surface of the crystal, forming an edge that is one atomic distance wide; this is shown in Figure 7.1c.

dislocation multiplication or the formation of new dislocations, as noted previously. Consequently, the average distance of separation between dislocations decreases— the dislocations are positioned closer together.On the average,dislocation-dislocation strain interactions are repulsive. The net result is that the motion of a dislocation is hindered by the presence of other dislocations. As the dislocation density increases, this resistance to dislocation motion by other dislocations becomes more pronounced. Thus, the imposed stress necessary to deform a metal increases with increasing cold work.

gure 7.24. For many polycrystalline materials, the grain diameter d varies with time t according to the relationship (7.9) where d0 is the initial grain diameter at t 0, and K and n are time-independent constants; the value of n is generally equal to or greater than 2. The dependence of grain size on time and temperature is demonstrated in Figure 7.25, a plot of the logarithm of grain size as a function of the logarithm of time for a brass alloy at several temperatures. At lower temperatures the curves are linear. Furthermore, grain growth proceeds more rapidly as temperature increases; that is, the curves are displaced upward to larger grain sizes. This is explained by the enhancement of diffusion rate with rising temperature.

gure 7.2a. Dislocation motion is analogous to the mode of locomotion employed by a caterpillar (Figure 7.3). The caterpillar forms a hump near its posterior end by pulling in its last pair of legs a unit leg distance. The hump is propelled forward by repeated lifting and shifting of leg pairs. When the hump reaches the anterior end, the entire caterpillar has moved forward by the leg separation distance. The caterpillar hump and its motion correspond to the extra half-plane of atoms in the dislocation model of plastic deformation

minimum. For a particular crystal structure, the slip plane is the plane that has the most dense atomic packing—that is, has the greatest planar density. The slip direction corresponds to the direction, in this plane, that is most closely packed with atoms—that is, has the highest linear density. Planar and linear atomic densities were discussed in Section 3.11.

respectively, of atoms within the twinned region. As may be noted in this figure, the displacement magnitude within the twin region (indicated by arrows) is proportional to the distance from the twin plane. Furthermore, twinning occurs on a definite crystallographic plane and in a specific direction that depend on crystal structure. For example, for BCC metals, the twin plane and direction are (112) and [111], respectively.

substitutional atom imposes compressive strains in its vicinity (Figure 7.18a). These solute atoms tend to diffuse to and segregate around dislocations in a way so as to reduce the overall strain energy—that is, to cancel some of the strain in the lattice surrounding a dislocation. To accomplish this, a smaller impurity atom is located where its tensile strain will partially nullify some of the dislocation's compressive strain. For the edge dislocation in Figure 7.17b, this would be adjacent to the dislocation line and above the slip plane. A larger impurity atom would be situated as in Figure 7.18b.

terms of a recrystallization temperature, the temperature at which recrystallization just reaches completion in 1 h. Thus, the recrystallization temperature for the brass alloy of Figure 7.22 is about 450C (850F). Typically, it is between one-third and one-half of the absolute melting temperature of a metal or alloy and depends on several factors, including the amount of prior cold work and the purity of the alloy. Increasing the percentage of cold work enhances the rate of recrystallization, with the result that the recrystallization temperature is lowered, and approaches a constant or limiting value at high deformations; this effect is shown in Figure 7.23. Furthermore, it is this limiting or minimum recrystallization temperature that is normally specified in the literature. There exists some critical degree of cold work below which recrystallization cannot be made to occur, as shown in the figure; normally, this is between 2% and 20% cold work.

After recrystallization is complete, the strain-free grains will continue to grow if the metal specimen is left at the elevated temperature (Figures 7.21d-f ); this phenomenon is called grain growth. Grain growth does not need to be preceded by recovery and recrystallization; it may occur in all polycrystalline materials, metals and ceramics alike

vAfter recrystallization is complete, the strain-free grains will continue to grow if the metal specimen is left at the elevated temperature (Figures 7.21d-f ); this phenomenon is called grain growth. Grain growth does not need to be preceded by recovery and recrystallization; it may occur in all polycrystalline materials, metals and ceramics alike

where is the applied stress. In general, 90, because it need not be the case that the tensile axis, the slip plane normal, and the slip direction all lie in the same plane. A metal single crystal has a number of different slip systems that are capable of operating. The resolved shear stress normally differs for each one because the orientation of each relative to the stress axis ( and angles) also differs. However, one slip system is generally oriented most favorably—that is, has the largest resolved shear stress, R(max):

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