期刊
NANO LETTERS
卷 16, 期 8, 页码 4946-4953出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01560
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Fatigue; TEM; metals; crack propagation
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资金
- DOE [DE-FG02-04ER83979, DE-FG02-07ER84813]
- Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC04-94AL85000]
One of the most common causes of structural failure in metals is fatigue induced by cyclic loading. Historically, microstructure-level analysis of fatigue cracks has primarily been performed post mortem. However, such investigations do not directly reveal the internal structural processes at work near micro- and nanoscale fatigue cracks and thus do not provide direct evidence of active microstructural mechanisms. In this study, the tension-tension fatigue behavior of nanocrystalline Cu was monitored in real time at the nanoscale by utilizing a new capability for quantitative cyclic mechanical loading performed in situ in a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Controllable loads were applied at frequencies from one to several hundred hertz, enabling accumulations of 10(6) cycles within 1 h. The nanometer-scale spatial resolution of the TEM allows quantitative fatigue crack growth studies at very slow crack growth rates, measured here at similar to 10(-12) m.cycle(-1). This represents an incipient threshold regime that is well below the tensile yield stress and near the minimum conditions for fatigue crack growth. Evidence of localized deformation and grain growth within 150 nm of the crack tip was observed by both standard imaging and precession electron diffraction orientation mapping. These observations begin to reveal with unprecedented detail the local microstructural processes that govern damage accumulation, crack nucleation, and crack propagation during fatigue loading in nanocrystalline Cu.
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