Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2021

Deciphering the interactions between single arm dislocation sources and coherent twin boundary in nickel bi-crystal

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The introduction of a well-controlled population of coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) is an attractive route to improve the strength ductility product in face centered cubic (FCC) metals. However, the elementary mechanisms controlling the interaction between single arm dislocation sources (SASs), often present in nanotwinned FCC metals, and CTB are still not well understood. Here, quantitative in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations of these mechanisms under tensile loading are performed on submicron Ni bi-crystal. We report that the absorption of curved screw dislocations at the CTB leads to the formation of constriction nodes connecting pairs of twinning dislocations at the CTB plane in agreement with large scale 3D atomistic simulations. The coordinated motion of the twinning dislocation pairs due to the presence of the nodes leads to a unique CTB sliding mechanism, which plays an important role in initiating the fracture process at a CTB ledge. TEM observations of the interactions between non-screw dislocations and the CTB highlight the importance of the synergy between the repulsive force of the CTB and the back stress from SASs when the interactions occur in small volumes. Interactions of dislocations with coherent twin boundaries contribute to strength and ductility in metals, but investigating the interaction mechanisms is challenging. Here the authors unravel these mechanisms through quantitative in-situ transmission electron microscopy observations in nickel bi-crystal samples under tensile loading.

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hal-03722595 , version 1 (13-07-2022)

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Vahid Samaee, Maxime Dupraz, Thomas Pardoen, Helena van Swygenhoven, Dominique Schryvers, et al.. Deciphering the interactions between single arm dislocation sources and coherent twin boundary in nickel bi-crystal. Nature Communications, 2021, 12 (1), pp.962-1-962-8. ⟨10.1038/s41467-021-21296-z⟩. ⟨hal-03722595⟩

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