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Article: Deformation of micron-sized aluminium bi-crystal pillars

TitleDeformation of micron-sized aluminium bi-crystal pillars
Authors
KeywordsAluminium
Bi-crystal
Deformation
Dislocation interactions
Dislocation mechanics
Dislocations
Ion beams
Micro-crystals
Nanoindentation
Nanomechanics
Issue Date2009
PublisherTaylor & Francis Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14786435.asp
Citation
Philosophical Magazine, 2009, v. 89 n. 33, p. 3013-3026 How to Cite?
AbstractThe deformation of micron-sized single-crystals is jumpy and stochastic, and this may pose potential formability and reliability problems if components for future micro-machines are to be made from small metal volumes. In this work, micron-sized bi-crystal pillars were fabricated by focussed ion-beam milling from grain-boundary regions in coarse-grained polycrystalline aluminium. Each bi-crystal pillar contained a grain boundary intersecting its top surface, and was subjected to compression using a flat-ended nanoindenter tip. Their deformation was found to have smaller strain bursts, fewer periods of strain hardening at elastic-like rates, as well as greater work-hardening rate and flow stress, than single-crystal pillars of similar sizes. Transmission electron microscopy revealed severe dislocation accumulation in the deformed bi-crystal pillars, whereas the residual dislocation density remained low in single-crystal micro-pillars of similar dimensions after deformation to comparable strains. The results suggest that a grain boundary inside a micro-specimen can trap dislocations inside the specimen, leading to a significant rise in the strain-hardening rate as well as to smoother deformation.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/75945
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.5
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.366
ISI Accession Number ID
Funding AgencyGrant Number
Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, P.R. ChinaHKU7156/08E
Funding Information:

We thank the Electron Microscope Unit of HKU for their assistance. The work described in this paper was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, P.R. China (Project No. HKU7156/08E).

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dc.description.abstractThe deformation of micron-sized single-crystals is jumpy and stochastic, and this may pose potential formability and reliability problems if components for future micro-machines are to be made from small metal volumes. In this work, micron-sized bi-crystal pillars were fabricated by focussed ion-beam milling from grain-boundary regions in coarse-grained polycrystalline aluminium. Each bi-crystal pillar contained a grain boundary intersecting its top surface, and was subjected to compression using a flat-ended nanoindenter tip. Their deformation was found to have smaller strain bursts, fewer periods of strain hardening at elastic-like rates, as well as greater work-hardening rate and flow stress, than single-crystal pillars of similar sizes. Transmission electron microscopy revealed severe dislocation accumulation in the deformed bi-crystal pillars, whereas the residual dislocation density remained low in single-crystal micro-pillars of similar dimensions after deformation to comparable strains. The results suggest that a grain boundary inside a micro-specimen can trap dislocations inside the specimen, leading to a significant rise in the strain-hardening rate as well as to smoother deformation.en_HK
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dc.subjectAluminiumen_HK
dc.subjectBi-crystalen_HK
dc.subjectDeformationen_HK
dc.subjectDislocation interactionsen_HK
dc.subjectDislocation mechanicsen_HK
dc.subjectDislocationsen_HK
dc.subjectIon beamsen_HK
dc.subjectMicro-crystalsen_HK
dc.subjectNanoindentationen_HK
dc.subjectNanomechanicsen_HK
dc.titleDeformation of micron-sized aluminium bi-crystal pillarsen_HK
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