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Deformation Twinning in Zirconium: Direct Experimental Observations and Polycrystal Plasticity Predictions

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Deformation twinning was directly observed in three commercial zirconium alloy samples during split channel die plane-strain compression. One pair of samples had similar starting texture but different grain size distributions, while another pair had similar grain size distribution but different starting textures. Extension twinning was found to be more sensitive to the starting texture than to the grain size distribution. Also, regions of intense deformation near grain boundaries were observed. A hierarchical binary tree-based polycrystal plasticity model, implementing the Chin-Hosford-Mendorf twinning criterion, captured the experimentally observed twinning grains’ lattice orientation distribution, and the twin volume fraction evolution, provided the critical resolved shear stress for extension twinning, \( \tau_{0} , \) was assumed much larger than any of the values reported in the literature, based on the viscoplastic self-consistent model. A comparison of the models suggests that \( \tau_{0} \) obtained using the present model and the viscoplastic self-consistent models physically correspond to the critical stress required for twin nucleation, and twin growth, respectively.

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This research is supported by the Board of Research in Nuclear Science (BRNS) and by the National Facility of Texture and OIM, a DST-IRPHA facility at IIT Bombay.

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  1. Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, 400 076, India

    Jaiveer Singh (Research Scholar), Gulshan Kumar (Research Scholar), Prita Pant (Associate Professor) & I. Samajdar (Professor)

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600 036, India

    Sivasambu Mahesh (Associate Professor)

  3. Materials Science Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400 085, India

    D. Srivastava (Head of Physical Metallurgy Section) & G. K. Dey (Associate Director of Materials Group)

  4. Nuclear Fuel Complex, Moula-ali, PO: ECIL, Hyderabad, 500 062, India

    N. Saibaba (Chairman & Chief Executive of Nuclear Fuel Complex)

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Singh, J., Mahesh, S., Kumar, G. et al. Deformation Twinning in Zirconium: Direct Experimental Observations and Polycrystal Plasticity Predictions. Metall Mater Trans A 46, 5058–5071 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-015-3085-z

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