Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 11, Pages 1083-1088Publisher
JOURNAL MATER SCI TECHNOL
DOI: 10.1016/S1005-0302(11)60190-4
Keywords
Severe plastic deformation; Copper; Fine-grained microstructure; Electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD); Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)
Funding
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N N507 373435]
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The results presented in this study were concerned with microstructures and mechanical properties of poly-crystalline Cu subjected to plastic deformation by a compression with oscillatory torsion process. Different deformation parameters of the compression with oscillatory torsion process were adopted to study their effects on the microstructure and mechanical properties. The deformed microstructure was characterized quantitatively by electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). Mechanical properties were determined on an MTS QTest/10 machine equipped with digital image correlation. From the experimental results, processes performed at high compression speed and high torsion frequency are recommended for refining the grain size. The size of structure elements, such as average grain size (D) and subgrain size (d), reached 0.42 mu m and 0.30 mu m, respectively, and the fraction of high angle boundaries was 35% when the sample was deformed at a torsion frequency f = 1.6 Hz and compression rate v = 0.04 mm/s. These deformation parameters led to an improvement in the strength properties. The material exhibited an ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of 434 MPa and a yield strength (YS) of 418 MPa. These values were about two times greater than those of the initial state.
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