Synchrotron polychromatic X-ray microdiffraction(micro-XRD) was applied to study in situ deformation twinning of commercially AZ31(Mg-3Al-1Zn) strip subjected to uniaxial tension.The morphology and growth of twins...Synchrotron polychromatic X-ray microdiffraction(micro-XRD) was applied to study in situ deformation twinning of commercially AZ31(Mg-3Al-1Zn) strip subjected to uniaxial tension.The morphology and growth of twins were analyzed in situ under the load level from 64 to 73 MPa.The X-ray microdiffraction data,collected on beamline 12.3.2 at the Advanced Light Source,were then used to map an area of 396μm x 200μm within the region of interest.The experimental set-up and X-ray diffraction microscopy with a depth resolution allow the position and orientation of each illuminated grain to be determined at the submicron size.A list of parent grains sorted by crystallographic orientation were selected to examine their twinning behavior.The results depict twin variant selection,local misorientation fluctuation and mosaic spread for multi-twins within the same parent grain.As load increases,the amplitude of misorientation fluctuation along twin trace keeps increasing.This is attributable to the accumulation of geometrically necessary dislocations.展开更多
基金Project(DP140102355)supported by the Australian Research Council(ARC)Project supported by the China Scholarship Council(CSC)
文摘Synchrotron polychromatic X-ray microdiffraction(micro-XRD) was applied to study in situ deformation twinning of commercially AZ31(Mg-3Al-1Zn) strip subjected to uniaxial tension.The morphology and growth of twins were analyzed in situ under the load level from 64 to 73 MPa.The X-ray microdiffraction data,collected on beamline 12.3.2 at the Advanced Light Source,were then used to map an area of 396μm x 200μm within the region of interest.The experimental set-up and X-ray diffraction microscopy with a depth resolution allow the position and orientation of each illuminated grain to be determined at the submicron size.A list of parent grains sorted by crystallographic orientation were selected to examine their twinning behavior.The results depict twin variant selection,local misorientation fluctuation and mosaic spread for multi-twins within the same parent grain.As load increases,the amplitude of misorientation fluctuation along twin trace keeps increasing.This is attributable to the accumulation of geometrically necessary dislocations.