Abstract
Since the stacking fault energy significantly influences the deformation mechanisms of Fe-Mn-Al-Si twinning-induced plasticity steels, two methods for its experimental determination by transmission electron microscopy of dislocations, namely the size of extended nodes and the separation of Shockley partials, were evaluated for an Fe-24.7Mn-2.66Al-2.92Si (wt.%) alloy. Measurement of partial dislocation separation provided the most reliable results, yielding a stacking fault energy of ∼16 mJ m -2, which is comparable to recent experimental and theoretical values for similar alloys.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 753-756 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Scripta Materialia |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2012 |
Funding
This work is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research, USA , under Grant DMR0805295 , and by the Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT), Spain , under Grant MAT2009–14385 . The support of Prof. Dierk Raabe and the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung is also gratefully acknowledged.
Keywords
- Dislocations
- Faults
- Stacking fault energy
- TWIP steel
- Transmission electron microscopy