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An evaluation of rate-controlling obstacles for low-temperature deformation of zirconium

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The low-temperature plastic flow of alpha-zirconium was studied by employing constantrate tensile tests and differential-stress creep experiments. The activation parameters, enthalpy and area, have been obtained as a function of stress for pure, as well as commercial zirconium. The activation area is independent of grain size and purity and falls to about 9b2 at high stresses. The deformation mechanism below about 700° K is found to be controlled by a single thermally activated process, and not a two-stage activation mechanism. Several dislocation mechanisms are examined and it is concluded that overcoming the Peierls energy humps by the formation of kink pairs in a length of dislocation is the rate-controlling mechanism. The total energy needed to nucleate a double kink is about 0.8 eV in pure zirconium and 1 eV in commercial zirconium.

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    D. H. Sastry, Y. V. R. K. Prasad & K. I. Vasu

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Sastry, D.H., Prasad, Y.V.R.K. & Vasu, K.I. An evaluation of rate-controlling obstacles for low-temperature deformation of zirconium. J Mater Sci 6, 332–341 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00020376

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