Local Accommodation Processes of Superplastic Grain Boundary Sliding: Their Direct Observation in Two-Dimensional Grain Boundary Sliding

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Accommodation processes are crucial for grain boundary sliding in superplasticity though few have been reported on their positive experimental evidences. The present study achieved two-dimensional grain boundary sliding in ODS ferritic steel which had elongated and aligned grain structure and got direct observations of accommodation processes without the surface effect of floating grains: 1) In Region II, diffusional accommodation was confirmed through observing the change in marking-line spacing, which indicates volume inflow and outflow at grain boundaries. 2) Between Regions II and III, dislocation accommodation inside of the mantle region, as proposed by Gifkins, was confirmed through observing curves of marking lines near grain boundaries. 3) In Region III, dislocation accommodation inside of the core region, as proposed by Ball and Hutchison, was confirmed through observing slip bands and sub-boundaries passing through a grain. It is, then, derived that superplasticity relies not on a single mechanism but on several diffusional and dislocation accommodations contributing depending on strain rate condition.

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