Shock recovery experiments were conducted to assess the role of shock stress and orientation dependence on substructure evolution and deformation twinning of a [100]/[01¯1] copper bicrystal. Transmission electron microscopy of the post-shock specimens revealed that well-defined dislocation cell structures developed in both grains and the average cell size decreased with increasing shock pressure from 5 to 10GPa. Twinning occurred in the [100] grain, but not the [01¯1] grain, at the 10GPa shock pressure. The stress and orientation dependence of incipient twinning could be predicted by the stress and orientation conditions required to dissociate slip dislocations into glissile twinning dislocations. The dynamic widths between the two partials were calculated considering the three-dimensional deviatoric stress state induced by the shock as calculated using plane-strain plate impact simulations and the relativistic and drag effects on dislocations moving at high speeds.

Orientation Dependence of Shock-Induced Twinning and Substructures in a Copper Bicrystal. F.Cao, I.J.Beyerlein, F.L.Addessio, B.H.Sencer, C.P.Trujillo, E.K.Cerreta, G.T.Gray: Acta Materialia, 2010, 58[2], 549-59