Crystallographic orientation and spatially resolved damage in a dispersion-hardened Al alloy

Qingge Xie, Junhe Lian, Jurij J. Sidor, Fengwei Sun, Xingchen Yan, Chaoyue Chen, Tingkun Liu, Weijian Chen, Ping Yang, Ke An, Yandong Wang

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Abstract

The in-situ neutron diffraction technique, in combination with both the full-field crystal elasto-viscoplastic finite element model and microstructural characterization, was used to study the deformation-induced damage anisotropy in a commercial Al alloy, subjected to uniaxial tensile and cyclic loading. The simulations capture well the crystallographic-orientation-dependent lattice strain behavior. The hard grains, e.g. those orientated with the <111> and <422> orientations parallel with the uniaxial loading direction (LD), feature large Taylor factors and seem more prone to form damage-related band structures. Their effective elastic moduli decrease with the accumulation of damage, which are different from the soft grains orientated with the <200> orientation along the LD. Correlation between the distribution of voids and that of the residual lattice strain developed after failure may exist. The maximum tensile type residual lattice strain observed after failure may be resulted from the band structure formed in the hardest <111> grains. It was revealed that the band structure triggered by the hard particles could be one of sources of damage. In addition, while the specimen was obviously damaged, a fast stress relief was evidenced after unloading from the tension, especially at the beginning of unloading. Our present investigations provide a novel method for exploring the damage mechanisms of polycrystalline materials during plastic deformation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)138-150
Number of pages13
JournalActa Materialia
Volume193
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2020

Funding

This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). QX thanks the funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 51571025) and the sponsorship by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U. S. Department of Energy. YDW thanks the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 51527801 ) and the Funds for Creative Research Groups of China (grant no. 51921001). Resources at the Spallation Neutron Source, U.S. DOE Office of Science User Facilities operated by ORNL, were used in this research. This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. U1837602 ).

Keywords

  • Band structure
  • Damage
  • Necking
  • Neutron diffraction
  • Residual lattice strain

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