Papers by Keyword: Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)

Abstract: The effects of strain path reversal under hot working conditions on the microstructure and crystallographic texture in the near-α titanium alloy Timetal-834 have been studied using high resolution electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The main objective of the work was to investigate the potential effect strain path may have on breaking up the well known clustering of similarly orientated primary alphas grains in the alloy, which significantly reduces its low cycle dwell fatigue lifetime. Deformation was carried out using forward torsion to an equivalent strain of 0.9 and forward/reverse torsion of two equal steps to produce a total strain of 0.9. The tests were performed at a typical industrial forging condition of 990°C (~50% alpha, ~50% beta) at an equivalent tensile strain rate of 2s-1. Investigation of the microstructure showed the primary alpha grains to align with the direction of torsion for the forward test and return to an equiaxed shape on strain reversal, though a significant numbers of deformation twins are formed and retained after the full strain reversal. Analysis of the texture of the starting material showed the typically clustering of primary alpha grains, which upon forward torsion and forward/reverse torsion did not break down. This indicates that during a typical forging operation the clustering of similarly orientated primary alpha grains inherited from the as-received billet will not be reduced. This suggests that improved in-service performance of this alloy can only be achieved by reducing the clustering upstream in the manufacture of the billet.

Abstract: A Co-20at%Ni polycrystal produced by electrodeposition was studied in its detail using orientation microscopy. By analyzing the local crystallographic texture, grain morphology and the grain boundary character on three distinct sections of the film, we have obtained a complete understanding of its microstructure. The microstructure and grain morphology is very complex, consisting of grains elongated in deposit direction, clusters of coarse and fine grains and further very fine structures. The deposition parameters generate a strong (1120)//ND texture and the columnar grain reveals inner orientation gradients along the growth direction

Abstract: This paper investigates the changes in deformation mechanisms of commercially pure titanium over a range of temperatures for different orientations relative to the initial rolling texture. Samples from grade 1 titanium plate were tested in plane strain compression (PSC). Extremes of orientation relative to the predominant split basal texture were tested at temperatures from 25°C to 700°C. Specimens were subsequently examined using X-ray texture analysis and electron back-scatter diffraction (EBSD). Changing the orientation resulted in substantial yield stress anisotropy. This was found to be largely related to the orientation of the dominant texture relative to the most favorable orientation for the easiest slip mode (prism slip), and significantly but to a lesser extent on differences in twinning behaviour. The most important difference in twinning was the operation of {1012} tensile twinning in c-axis tension and {1122} compression twinning in c-axis extension. Calculations indicated that at low temperature both of these twinning modes accommodate a significant amount of strain. Twinning was also found to be the most significant factor affecting work hardening behaviour, with reorientation hardening occurring for some sample orientations. As temperature was increased above ~350°C {1011} twinning became the dominant twinning mode, but its contribution to the strain was not as large as the low temperature twinning modes, and the total amount of twinning decreased with temperature. The decrease in twinning with increasing temperature led to a reduction in the difference in work hardening behaviour. The quantitative information gathered in the course of this work is discussed in the context of mechanical property prediction.

Abstract: Two polycrystal models are implemented into the finite element code to model texture development for pure Al under uniaxial tensile deformation and cold rolling deformation with EBSD data. Both models predictions in tensile deformation are reasonable agreement with the experimental data. Texture development under cold rolling predicted by the finite element model is more approximate to the measurement than Taylor-type model. Some other ideal orientations are failed to be predicted.

Abstract: Micro-orientation data of a high purity Al rolled up to total thickness reduction of 80% at room temperature were determined using SEM-EBSD technique, conceptions of describing substructure information, such as subgrain misorientation (θcry), and average misorientation (θenv) of circumjacent subgrains for a special subgrain, etc., were suggested and corresponding GCDP-OI soft package was developed. It is found that the subgrains sizes increase rapidly from about 2 to 7 μm with increasing misorientations from 1° to 15°, and the total number frequency of which is more than 95%. However, taking into account local features of subgrais, whose sizes for Dcry/Denv > 1 are 2 times larger than that for Dcry/Denv < 1 on the same misorientation levels below 20°, and the relationships between misorientations and sizes are consistent with that if Dcry/Denv > 1, θcry/θenv > 1, vice versa.

Abstract: Multiaxial compression (MAC) is a severe plastic deformation (SPD) method that allows sequential uniaxial compression of prismatic samples to relatively large cumulative strains. The technique involves a change in loading direction (x to y to z to x…) between successive compression passes. A high-purity α-iron containing 60 mass ppm C was thus strained using passes of ε ∼ 0.4 at room temperature (0.16 Tm) and 450 °C (0.40 Tm) to total ε ranging from 1.4 to 2.9. Both optical and electron microscopy were used to characterise the deformed microstructures. Fragmentation of the initial grain structure occurs mainly in the form of a dense, homogeneous network of low angle boundaries (LAB) delimiting subgrains of about 1 3m. The original grains are easily distinguishable and maintain a relatively equiaxed appearance even at larger strains. At room temperature, high angle boundaries (HAB) are observed within some of the initial grains, and not necessarily close to the grain boundaries. These HAB may be open or closed, and tend to align themselves at approximately 45° to the orthogonal axes, suggesting the presence of microshear bands and thus a heterogeneous deformation. Such bands of localised strain criss-cross as a result of different slip systems being activated from one pass to another. When the temperature is increased to 450 °C, grain boundary migration becomes significant owing to the lack of impurities that could otherwise provide a pinning effect. The resultant subgrain structure is coarsened to about 4 3m. Besides, the enhancement of recovery at higher temperatures also appears to discourage the generation of HAB by dislocation accumulation processes.

Abstract: The features of the creep deformation of γ-single phase single crystals with the composition of Ni-20mass%Cr are characterized by the extended transient stage, which consists of Stage I and Stage II. In the Stage I, the creep rate just after loading remains unchanged, while the creep rate decreases continuously in Stage II. In the single crystals except for the single crystals with the stress axis of [001] and [1, – 11], the predominant creep deformation using the primary slip plane continues. By this deformation, the cross section of specimen turns to elliptical in shape. However, in the single crystals with the angle between stress axis and primary slip plane (111) is more than 45°, the deformation using the primary slip plane does not continue, as a result, the duration of Stage II turn to shorter one. The single crystal with the stress axis of [011] has the largest angle of 55°. In this study, the deformation manner during transient stage of single crystal with the stress axis of [011] orientation is investigated from the two viewpoints. The first one is to clarify the change in deformation manner with decreasing the stress. As a result, with decreasing the stress, the Stage I become clear and strain during Stage I and Stage II become small, furthermore, the decreasing ratio of creep rate with definite strain becomes larger. While, the second viewpoint is to investigate the change in crystallographic orientation of the [011] single crystals with creep deformation using the inverse pole figure obtained by the EBSD method. As a result, at the stress of 29.4 MPa, the spot of stress axis turns from the [011]-[1, – 11] line to the <1, – 01> direction. While, at the stress of 19.6 MPa, the stress axis moves for the [1, – 11] pole along the [011]-[1, – 11] line from the [011] pole. And, it is noteworthy that the spot widely spread from the [011] pole during transient stage. This indicates the large distortion in the primary slip plane and the evidence of heterogeneous deformation.

Abstract: The creep deformations of γ-single phase Ni-20mass%Cr single crystals with stress axes within standard stereographic triangle and at the three pole positions have been investigated. The most of the creep life is occupied by the transient stage, which consists of Stage I and Stage II. In Stage I, the creep rate just after loading remains constant. In Stage II, the creep rate decreases continuously. Except for the single crystals with stress axes of [001] and [1,–11] poles, the single crystals make the creep deformation using the primary slip plane of (111). As a result, the cross section of the specimens turns from circular to elliptical in shape. However, there are marked difference in deformation manner among single crystals with the stress axes within standard stereographic triangle. The single crystals whose angle between stress axis and primary slip plane of (111), θ. is more than 45° shows the heterogeneous deformation during creep. While, the homogeneous deformation will be expected in the single crystals with θ less than 45°. In this study, by using the four single crystals with θ less than 45°, the change in the stress axis with the creep deformation at 1173K-29.4MPa, is investigated and the deformation manner due to the primary slip plane of (111) is estimated by conducting the creep interrupting tests. In the two single crystals with stress axes in the standard stereographic triangle where the moving range of θ is narrow, comparing to the others, the spot of the stress axis in the inverse pole figure moves for <1,– 01> direction by using (111)<1,–01> slip system, and after arriving at the [001]-[1,–11] line, the spot turns to its direction for [1,–11] pole using (111)<1,–10> slip system. While, in the other two single crystals whose stress axes located in the area with wider moving range of θ, the spot of stress axis only move for <1,–01> direction. And, the widely spread spot of the stress axis is confirmed after subjecting the small strain.

Abstract: including, external oxide layers, internal grain boundary oxidation structures as well as many other forms of internal oxidation. During the present study, needle like grains of hematite have been observed within the top layers of a number of external oxide scales formed during simulated reheat of 316L stainless steel. It is believed that these needles are caused by the decomposition of an iron rich spinel (approximated to magnetite) along a preferred crystal direction within the spinel grains. The needles have been studied using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD).