Papers by Keyword: Laser Microscope

Abstract: It is understood that grains move by grain boundary sliding, and change their relationship to each other during superplastic deformation. Ideal two-dimensional observation of grain movements from the specimen surface is difficult even in the shear deformation because grains move three-dimensionally according to the stress distribution against the specimen surface. In this study, ODS steel with elongated grains aligned along one direction was deformed perpendicular to the aligned axis to achieve ideal two-dimensional grain movements. Surface height profiles with a laser microscope showed small amount of three-dimensional grain movements, while two-dimensional grain movements and rotations were appeared by observations before and after the deformation with SEM-EBSD.

Abstract: To understand the free surface roughening phenomena of polycrystalline metals, the surface roughening behaviors of three kinds of metal sheets were investigated under uniaxial tension. The materials used were AZ31 magnesium alloy, SPFC 590Y steel, and A5052-O aluminum alloy. In the in-situ observation of surface roughening for AZ31 magnesium alloy, it seemed that the surface of each grain roughened independently and the roughness increases with increasing plastic strain. In contrast to A5052-O and SPFC, the anisotropy of free surface roughening was observed for AZ31 magnesium alloy. Compared with planar anisotropy , the microscopic anisotropy of surface roughening is not related to . In AZ31 magnesium alloy, the anisotropy of surface roughening arises and, instead of the r-value, another parameter is needed to evaluate the anisotropy of free surface roughening.

Abstract: An in-situ observation method for structures at high temperature is developed. The new observation device can reveal grain boundaries at high temperature and enables dynamic observation of these boundaries. Grain growth while maintaining microstructure at high temperature is observed by the new observation device with only one specimen for the entire observation, and grain sizes are quantified. The quantifying process reveals two advantages particular to the use of the new observation device: (1) the ability to quantify grain sizes of specified sizes and (2) the results of average grain size for many grains have significantly less errors because the initial structure is the same for the entire observation and the quantifying process. The new observation device has the function to deform a specimen while observing structures at high temperature, so that enables it to observe dynamic recrystallization of steel. The possibility to observe recrystallization is also shown.