冷轧变形量对1050激光毛化板组织及织构的影响

采用X射线衍射技术和TEM观测探讨了冷轧变形量对激光毛化1050铝合金在热处理前后组织及织构的影响。结果表明,低变形量下的毛化辊轧制样品中除了Cu{112}<111>、Bs{110}<112>和S{123}<634>织构组分外,还有Rot.Cube{001}<110>织构形成。随变形量的增加,Rot.Cube织构逐渐减弱,Cu、Bs、S织构组分逐渐增强。经400℃退火后,样品发生了再结晶,但在样品中仍有部分轧制织构存在,立方织构含量随变形量增加先增加后降低。     

冷轧双相钢在退火过程中的组织和织构演变

通过模拟双相钢的热镀锌退火处理,研究了钢的组织和织构演变。结果表明:冷轧后试验钢加热到630℃时,在变形铁素体晶界附近出现少量再结晶晶核,当加热温度升高至690℃时,变形组织已基本消失,再结晶过程基本完成;在再结晶过程中析出的细小弥散TiC、NbC相对{111}织构的形核具有促进作用,阻碍了不利织构的形核,从而使得γ织构密度增强,α取向线上的{001}〈110〉至{112}〈110〉范围内的织构密度减弱,甚至消失;在再结晶晶核长大阶段,TiC、NbC相对{111}织构的长大具有阻碍作用,使得{001}〈110〉织构密度升高。     

Shear banding in twinned structure of copper deformed at 77 K

The local crystallography and microstructure within shear bands has been examined in single crystals of {112}<111> orientation of pure copper deformed at 77 K by channel‐die compression to true strains of about 1. Setting up a system for making high‐resolution orientation maps using transmission electron microscopy has provided advantageous circumstances for the analysis of orientation changes within shear bands. The present work shows that, despite the plane strain deformation mode, the mechanism of lattice rotation within emerging shear bands may lead to Goss {110}< 001> and Brass{110}<112> texture components.     

Texture evolution in grain-oriented electrical steel during hot band annealing and cold rolling

The optimization of magnetic and physical properties of electrical steel is imperative for many engineering applications. The key factors to improve magnetic properties are the steel composition as well as control of the crystallographic orientation and microstructure of the steel during processing. However, this requires careful control of processing at all stages of production. Under certain conditions of deformation and annealing, electrical steel can be produced to have favourable texture components. For grain‐oriented (GO) electrical steels that are used in most transformer cores, a pronounced {110}〈001〉 Goss texture plays a vital role to achieve low power losses and high permeability. Essentially, Goss texture develops during secondary re‐crystallization in GO electrical steels; however, the mechanism of the abnormal Goss grain growth is still disputed in the literature. In the current study, the influence of the annealing conditions on the development of annealing, cold rolling and re‐crystallization textures of hot‐rolled GO electrical steel were investigated in detail following each processing step. Furthermore, the orientation data from electron backscatter diffraction were used to evaluate the orientation‐dependent stored energy of deformed grains after hot rolling. In the light of new findings in the present study, annealing and deformation texture development mechanisms were critically reviewed.     

Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy in situ studies of grain boundary migration in cold-deformed aluminium bicrystals

The crystallography of recrystallization has been investigated in channel‐die deformed pure aluminium bicrystals with {100}<011>/{110}<001> orientations. The microstructural and microtextural changes during the early stages of recrystallization were followed by systematic local orientation measurements using scanning and transmission electron microscopes. In particular, orientation mapping combined with in situ sample heating was used to investigate the formation and growth of new grains at very early stages of recrystallization. Grain boundary migration and ‘consumption’ of the as‐deformed areas was always favoured along directions parallel to the traces of the {111} slip planes that had been most active during deformation.     

Wear properties of friction stir processed AISI D2 tool steel

Influences of microstructural and textural properties of friction stir processing (FSP) on dry reciprocating wear properties of AISI D2 tool steel are investigated in this study. The mechanical improvement is attributed not only to the homogenous distribution of very small carbides in a refined matrix, but also to significant development of textures during FSP. The excellent wear resistance is ascribed to nanohardness enhancement of the FSPed steel. Dominant shear components of {111} 〈110〉 and {112} 〈111〉 with the lowest Taylor׳s factor and the high density of close-packed planes formation significantly enhance the wear resistance of FSPed sample at 500 rpm.     

Electron backscatter diffraction characterization of inlaid cu lines for interconnect applications

Automated electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) techniques have been used to characterize the microstructures of thin films for the past decade or so. The recent change in strategy from an aluminum‐based interconnect structure in integrated circuits to one based on copper has necessitated the development of new fabrication procedures. Along with new processes, complete characterization of the microstructures is imperative for improving manufacturability of the Cu interconnect lines and in‐service reliability. Electron backscatter diffraction has been adopted as an important characterization tool in this effort. Cu microstructures vary dramatically as a function of processing conditions, including electroplating bath chemistry, sublayer material, stacking sequence of sublayers, annealing conditions, and line widths and depths. Crystallographic textures and grain size and grain boundary character distributions, all of which may influence manufacturability and reliability of interconnect lines, are ideally characterized using EBSD. The present discussion presents some results showing structural dependence upon processing parameters. In addition, the authors identify an in‐plane orientation preference in inlaid Cu lines {111} normal to the line surface and 〈110〉 aligned with the line direction. This relationship tends to strengthen as the line width decreases.     

Fretting on the cubic face of a single-crystal Ni-base superalloy at room temperature

Fretting experiments were conducted on the (1 0 0) crystal (cubic) face of a single crystal Ni-base superalloy in two directions, 〈1 0 0〉 and 〈1 1 0〉, to study the effect of crystallographic orientation on the fretting response in both partial slip and gross slip regimes. The study involved point contacts using a tungsten carbide (WC) ball with radius 10 mm tested at room temperature. Ball indentation was used to determine secondary crystallographic orientations. Under sufficiently high normal force, the friction on the cubic face in the 〈1 1 0〉 direction was larger than in the 〈1 0 0〉 direction. This difference can be explained by the extent of plastic deformation in the surface layer and associated microstructure changes, both of which depend on the coupling between the crystallographic orientation and the cyclic deformation field.     

Quasi-cleavage fracture planes in spheroidized A533B steel

Electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) has been used to acquire crystal orientation information around unusual microcracks induced by tensile deformation of notched specimens of spheroidized A533B steel. This unusual fracture mode has been called quasi‐cleavage and occurs at relatively low temperatures with fracture energies below that of the upper shelf. EBSD measurements on sectioned samples showed that the quasi‐cleavage cracks were intragranular. A two‐dimensional analysis technique was used in which EBSD measured crystal orientations were combined with secondary electron imaging to obtain the trace of the crack facet on the section plane. The measurements revealed that the observed crack facets were consistent with crack propagation along the {001} and {011} planes.     

Precession electron diffraction‐assisted crystal phase mapping of metastable c‐GaN films grown on (001) GaAs

The control growth of the cubic meta‐stable nitride phase is a challenge because of the crystalline nature of the nitrides to grow in the hexagonal phase, and accurately identifying the phases and crystal orientations in local areas of the nitride semiconductor films is important for device applications. In this study, we obtained phase and orientation maps of a metastable cubic GaN thin film using precession electron diffraction (PED) under scanning mode with a point‐to‐point 1 nm probe size beam. The phase maps revealed a cubic GaN thin film with hexagonal GaN inclusions of columnar shape. The orientation maps showed that the inclusions have nucleation sites at the cubic GaN {111} facets. Different growth orientations of the inclusions were observed due to the possibility of the hexagonal {0001} plane to grow on any different {111} cubic facet. However, the generation of the hexagonal GaN inclusions is not always due to a 60° rotation of a {111} plane. These findings show the advantage of using PED along with phase and orientation mapping, and the analysis can be extended to differently composed semiconductor thin films. Microsc. Res. Tech. 77:980–985, 2014. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

铸辗成形大口径25Mn钢环件微织构及力学性能

根据铸辗复合成形工艺对大口径25Mn钢环件进行离心铸造和热辗扩工业试验以及对其调质处理,运用金相显微镜、扫描电镜和电子背散射衍射技术分析组织与织构,并采用拉伸与冲击试验等手段检测其力学性能。结果表明,辗扩件外形尺寸精确,组织相对均匀,个别区域伴有不规则晶粒;微观织构组态主要为沿着111//ND取向线分布的黄铜R织构{111}112和取向密度为6.0的高斯织构{110}001,力学性能较好,但塑性稍微偏低;揭示拉伸和冲击断裂机理为解理与韧窝共存形式。调质后回火析出弥散分布的细小碳化物颗粒,晶粒更加细小均匀,大角度晶界所占比例为3/4;揭示织构演化表现为高斯织构沿着?-取向线逐渐向旋转立方织构{110}110聚集转变,塑性性能得到明显提高,呈现典型的韧窝断裂。研究揭示通过离心铸造25Mn钢环坯直接热辗扩成形大口径环件是切实可行的,达到了环件成形/成性的双重目的。     

Distinguishing crystallographic misorientations of lanthanum zirconate epilayers on nickel substrates by electron backscatter diffraction

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) was used for distinguishing crystallographic orientations and local lattice misfits of a La₂Zr₂O₇ (LZO) buffer layer epitaxially grown on a cube textured Ni-5.%W (Ni-W) substrate for a YBCO superconductor film. Orientation data were obtained from the LZO epilayer using low energy primary electrons (5 keV) and from the Ni-W substrate by increasing the voltage to 15 keV. In-plane and out-of-plane orientations of the LZO epilayer were revealed with respect to its Ni-W substrate. A strong {1 0 0} 〈0 1 1〉 rotated-cube texture in the LZO epilayer was formed on the {1 0 0} 〈0 0 1〉 cube-textured Ni-W substrates. LZO and Ni in-plane crystallographic axes are related by an expected 45° rotation. The step-misorientations and the local misfit strains between the LZO epilayer and the substrate were also analyzed.     

Influence of Friction on Surface Asperity Flattening Process in Cold Uniaxial Planar Compression (CUPC)

Atomic force microscope and electron back-scattering diffraction measurement methods were used to study the effects of friction on surface asperity flattening and surface texture during the uniaxial planar compression of annealed aluminum alloy. With an increase in gauged reduction, surface asperity tended to be flattened. Friction could boost the surface asperity flattening process by reducing the flow stress in deformation. The development of surface asperity features demonstrated that friction can effectively hinder the development of the Goss orientation component {011} <100> and clearly promote the generation of brass orientation {011} <100> orientation. Regardless of whether the sample was compressed with lubricant or not, a few S orientation component {123} <634> formed in sample edge area.     

On the orientations of abnormally grown grains in nanocrystalline Ni and Ni–Fe

The scanning electron microscopy–based electron backscatter diffraction technique has been used to determine grain orientations of abnormally grown grains upon annealing in nanocrystalline Ni and Ni–20 at.% Fe electrodeposits. The results show that in nanocrystalline Ni and Ni–Fe, the first grown grains that can be detected are 〈411〉 oriented with respect to the normal direction (〈411〉//ND). Upon annealing, further grain growth occurs and the dominant orientation of the abnormally growing grains changes from 〈411〉//ND to 〈111〉//ND. Twinning is found to be the mechanism responsible for the orientation change and is for the first time described in connection with abnormal grain growth in nanocrystalline materials. This means that well‐known models for the formation of annealing twins (initially introduced in connection with recrystallization) also seem to apply in nanocrystalline materials.     

On the role of constitutive model in the forming limit of FCC sheet metal with cube orientations

The effect on forming-limit diagrams (FLD) of an initial cube texture and its evolution was studied using the well-known M-K approach in conjunction with a viscoplastic crystal plasticity model (VPSC). We focused on how the strength of the cube texture affects localized necking. In particular, we addressed the results of Wu et al. [Effect of cube texture on sheet-metal formability. Materials Science and Engineering A 2004;364:182-7] who found that a spread about cube exhibits unexpectedly high limit strains. The FLD and yield loci were determined for several spreads about {1 0 0}〈0 0 1〉 with uniform or Gaussian distributions. A smooth transition in predicted limit strains from the ideal cube, through textures with increasing cut-off angles, to a random texture was calculated using the MK-VPSC approach. Results indicate that the constitutive model selected has a critical importance for predicting the behavior of materials that exhibit a qualitative change in the crystallographic texture, and hence, evolve anisotropically during mechanical deformation.     

Dislocations in nanostructured two‐phase Fe30Ni20Mn20Al30

In a previous study, the dislocations in Fe₃₀Ni₂₀Mn₂₅Al₂₅ (at. %), which consist of 50 nm wide alternating b.c.c. and B2 phases, were shown to have a/2<111> Burgers vectors after room temperature deformation. The dislocations were found to glide in pairs on both {110} and {112} slip planes and were relatively widely separated in the b.c.c. phase, where the dislocations were uncoupled, and closely spaced in the B2 phase, where the dislocations were connected by an anti‐phase boundary. In this article, we analyze the dislocations in the two ～5 nm‐wide B2 phases in a related two‐phase alloy Fe₃₀Ni₂₀Mn₂₀Al₃₀, with compositions Fe‐23Ni‐21Mn‐24Al and Fe‐39Ni‐12Mn‐34Al, compressed to ～3% strain at a strain rate 5 × 10^?4 s^?1 at 873 K (the lowest temperature at which substantial plastic flow was observed). It is shown that slip occursby the glide of a<100> dislocations. A review of the literature suggests that the differences in the observed slip vector between these B2 phases could be due to the differences in composition, differences in deformation temperature, or possibly both. Microsc. Res. Tech. 76:263–267, 2013. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Crystal Plasticity Finite Modelling of 3D Surface Asperity Flattening in Uniaxial Planar Compression

Rate-dependent crystal plasticity constitutive model has been employed into finite element software ABAQUS to simulate surface asperity flattening in uniaxial planar compression. Measured textures and surface roughness are introduced into the 3D surface roughness model. The calculated results show a good agreement with the experimental results. With an increase of reduction, the surface asperity flattening tends to increase, and Goss texture {011} 〈100〉 and brass component {110} 〈112〉 become stronger, whilst the cubic texture {001} 〈100〉 becomes weaker. If the reduction reaches 40%, Schmid in-grain shear band appears and the strain localisation starts. The evolution of surface feature (roughness) shows the obvious sensitivity on the orientation {111} of near-top surface.     

Multi-scale parallel finite element analyses of LDH sheet formability tests based on crystallographic homogenization method

A multi-scale parallel finite element (FE) procedure based on the crystallographic homogenization method was applied to the LDH sheet formability test analysis. For the multi-scale structure, two scales are considered. One is a microscopic polycrystal structure and the other is a macroscopic elastic plastic continuum. The analysis code can predict the formability of sheet metal in macro-scale, simultaneously the crystal texture and hardening evolutions in the micro-scale (Nakamachi E et al. Int J Plasticity 2007;23:450-8). Since huge computation time is required for the nonlinear dynamic multi-scale FE analysis, parallel computing technique based on domain partitioning of FE model for macro-continuum is introduced into the multi-scale code using the message passing interface (MPI) library and PC cluster (Kuramae H et al. In: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on computational plasticity, Part 1, 2005. p. 622-5). The explicit time stepping solution scheme in the nonlinear multi-scale FE dynamic problem is well-suited for parallel computing on distributed memory environment such as PC cluster because solving simultaneous equation is not required. We measured crystal morphologies of four automotive sheet metals, aluminum alloy sheet metals A6022-T43 and A5182-O, an asymmetrically rolled aluminum alloy sheet metal A6022-ASR, and mild steel HC220YD, by using the scanning electron microscope (SEM) with electron back scattered diffraction (EBSD) analyses, and defined a three-dimensional representative volume element (RVE) of micro polycrystal structure, which satisfy the periodicity condition of crystal orientation distribution. We evaluate not only macroscopic formability of the automotive sheet metals by the multi-scale LDH test analysis, but also microcrystalline texture evolution during plastic deformation. Furthermore, a relationship between the macroscopic formability and the microcrystal texture evolution was discussed through looking at multi-scale FE results. It is concluded that the mild steel HC220YD was the highest formability than the aluminum alloy sheet metals because of remaining and generating the γ-fiber texture, such as {1 1 1}〈1 1 0〉-{1 1 1}〈1 1 2〉 orientations, during plastic deformation.     

Dislocation identification and in situ straining in the spinodal Fe30Ni20Mn25Al25 alloy

Dislocations in the spinodal alloy Fe(30)Ni(20)Mn(25)Al(25), which is composed of alternating BCC and B2 (ordered BCC) phases, have been investigated using weak-beam transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The alloy was compressed at room temperature in an as-hot-extruded state to strains of approximately 3% for post-mortem dislocation analysis. Dislocations with a/2<111> Burgers vectors were found to glide in pairs on both {110} and {112} slip planes. TEM in situ straining experiments were also performed on both the as-extruded alloy and an arc-melted alloy. The in situ straining observations confirmed that dislocations were able to pass between both spinodal phases. Partial dislocation separations were relatively wide in the BCC phase and narrow in the B2 phase. Dislocation glide, as opposed to twinning (both of which have been observed in other BCC-based spinodals), was also found to be the only room temperature deformation mechanism.     

Recrystallization phenomena in an IF steel observed by in situ EBSD experiments

In situ electron backscatter diffraction microstructural analysis of recrystallizing interstitial free steels deformed to strains of 0.75 and 1.6 has been carried out in a FEG‐SEM. The experimental procedures are discussed, and it is shown that there is no degradation of the electron backscatter diffraction patterns at temperatures up to 800°C. Analysis of the surface and interior microstructures of annealed samples shows only minor difference, which suggests that in situ annealing experiments are of value. In addition, it is shown that in situ measurements allow a detailed comparison between the same areas before and after annealing, thereby providing information about the recrystallization mechanisms. Sequential recrystallization phenomena, such as initiation and growth of new grains, are observed at temperatures over 740°C, and depending on the deformation histories, different recrystallization behaviour is observed. It is found that {111}〈123〉 recrystallized grains are preferentially formed in the highly deformed material, whereas no strong recrystallization texture is formed in the lower strained material.