How to Measure a Dislocation’s Breakthrough Stress to Estimate the Grain Boundary Resistance against Slip Transfer Based on the DFZ-Model of Fracture

Abstract:

Stage-I-fatigue-cracks are used as highly localized dislocation sources with well-known Burger’s vectors to study the interaction between dislocations and grain boundaries. This interaction in the plastic zone is of particular interest to understand the fluctuating crack growth in the very short crack regime. In the case of a blocked slip band the dislocations pile up at the grain boundary causing a local stress concentration. The resulting local stress distribution is calculated based on measurements of the dislocation density distribution in the plastic zone. For this purpose the slip line profiles were measured by AFM, the dislocation density distribution was determined and the dislocation-free zone model of fracture (DFZ) was validated. With this it is possible to quantify the grain boundary resistance and to combine geometric and stress approach for grain boundary resistance against slip transfer.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 258)
• Pages: 93-96
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.258.93
• Online since: December 2016
• Authors: Florian Schaefer*, Matthias Thielen, Michael Marx, Christian Motz
• Keywords: DFZ-Model, Dislocation Distribution, Dislocation-Free Zone, Fatigue Crack, Stage-I-Crack

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