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Quantitative Study of Residual Strain and Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density Using HR-EBSD Method

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Background

Optical metrology is widely used to measure materials’ deformation and mechanical properties but current fundamental research requires more precise measurement of microstructure and deformation in internal materials. Electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) technique measures crystal orientation in individual grain and high resolution EBSD (HR-EBSD) method provides information about residual strain and GND density.

Objective

Deformation of two stainless steels Nitronic 60 and Tristelle 5183 with different proportions of ferrite and carbides are characterised.

Methods

Push-release bend testing was used to provide progressive increasing bending stress in two iron-based material samples. HR-EBSD and high resolution digital image correlation (HR-DIC) methods characterised residual strain, GND density and plastic strain distributions in each sample.

Results

Nitronic 60 and Tristelle 5183 were deformed and obtained 3.8% and 0.9% plastic strain Ɛxx. High GND densities distributed neighbouring grain boundaries in Nitronic 60 while high GND densities distributed around carbides, especially intragranular carbides in Tristelle 5183.

Conclusions

HR-EBSD and HR-DIC quantitative characterised deformation in two iron-based alloys, grain/twin boundaries and carbides resulted in GND density increase, promoted work hardening and accumulated high residual elastic strain. Heterogeneous grain/carbide size distribution leaded to stress concentration and cause carbide decohesion and brittle fracture of sample.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks for the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 11632010). C. Zhao acknowledge the financial support by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), Rolls-Royce and Imperial College London. C. Zhao want to express thanks to Prof Fionn Dunne, Dr Ben Britton and Dr Jun Jiang for helpful discussions on the experiments.

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  3. Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

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Zhao, C., Li, X. Quantitative Study of Residual Strain and Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density Using HR-EBSD Method. Exp Mech 61, 1281–1290 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-021-00741-6

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