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The effect of stacking fault energy (SFE) on the evolution of microstructures during room temperature tensile testing has been investigated at two strain rates of 8.3×10−4 and 1.7×10−1/s in pure copper, Cu-2.2%Al, and Cu-4.5%Al alloys with SFE values of, approximately, 78, 20 and 4 mJ/m2, respectively. The mechanism of deformation changes from simple slip leading to cell formation in the high SFE metal, Cu, to overlapping and/or intersecting deformation twins in low SFE alloy, Cu-4.5%Al. The effect of strain rate is such that it results in rather poorly defined cell boundaries in copper, with a smaller cell size at higher strain rates for similar grain sizes and strain values. The alloys deform by twinning and the propensity of deformation twins increases with both a decrease in SFE value and increase in strain rates.
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Caballero, V., Varma, S. Effect of stacking fault energy and strain rate on the microstructural evolution during room temperature tensile testing in Cu and Cu-Al dilute alloys. Journal of Materials Science 34, 461–468 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004526208389
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