Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

What types of grain boundaries can be passed through by persistent slip bands?

  • Published:
Journal of Materials Research Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Three typical interactions of persistent slip bands (PSBs) with different types of grain boundaries (GBs) were investigated and analyzed in fatigued copper crystals. The results show that PSBs cannot transfer through all types of large-angle GBs, regardless of their orientation with respect to the stress axis. Secondary slip was often observed near the GBs, leading to strain incompatibility. When the slip systems of the two adjacent crystals are coplanar, the transmission of a PSB across a GB strongly depends on the slip directions of the two adjacent crystals. It was found that only the low-angle GBs can be passed through by PSBs, and accordingly they are insensitive to intergranular fatigue cracking. For a special copper bicrystal with coplanar slip systems, the ladderlike dislocation arrangements within the adjacent PSBs become discontinuous and a dislocation-affected-zone appears near the GB due to the difference in the slip direction of the two adjacent crystals. Therefore, the necessary conditions for the transmission of a PSB across a GB are that the neighboring grains have a coplanar slip system and identical slip directions.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Z. Shen, R.H. Wagoner, and A.T. Clark, Acta Mater. 36, 3231 (1988).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. T.C. Lee, I.M. Robertson, and H.K. Birnbaum, Philos. Mag. A 62, 131 (1990).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. X. Baillin, J. Pelissier, A. Jacques, and A. George, Philos. Mag. A 61, 329 (1990).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. W. Liu, M. Bayerlein, H. Mughrabi, A. Day, and P.N. Quested, Acta Metall. Mater. 40, 1763 (1992).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. C. Laird, P. Charsley, and H. Mughrabi, Mater. Sci. Eng. 81, 433 (1986).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. T. Luoh and C.P. Chang, Acta Mater. 44, 2683 (1996).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Z.F. Zhang and Z.G. Wang, Acta Mater. 49, 2875 (2001).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. A.J. Wilkinson, M.B. Henderson, and J.M. Martin, Philos. Mag. Lett. 74, 145 (1996).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Z.F. Zhang and Z.G. Wang, Acta Mater. 46, 5063 (1998).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. H. Mughrabi, Mater. Sci. Eng. 33, 207 (1978).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Y.M. Hu and Z.G. Wang, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 234–236, 98 (1997).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Z.F. Zhang and Z.G. Wang, Philos. Mag. A 79, 741 (1999).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. P. Peralta and C. Laird, Acta Mater. 45, 3029 (1997).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Z.F. Zhang, Z.G. Wang, and S.X. Li, Fatigue Fract. Engr. Mater. Struct. 21, 1307 (1998).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Z.F. Zhang and Z.G. Wang, Philos. Mag. A 81, 399 (2001).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. Z.F. Zhang and Z.G. Wang, Philos. Mag. Lett. 80, 483 (2000).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 110016, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China

    Z. F. Zhang & Z. G. Wang

  2. Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung (IFW) Dresden, Institute for Metallic Materials, P.O. Box 27 00 16, D-01171, Dresden, Germany

    Z. F. Zhang & J. Eckert

Authors
  1. Z. F. Zhang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Z. G. Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. J. Eckert
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Z. F. Zhang.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Zhang, Z.F., Wang, Z.G. & Eckert, J. What types of grain boundaries can be passed through by persistent slip bands?. Journal of Materials Research 18, 1031–1034 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2003.0141

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2003.0141

Search

Navigation