Hardening Ni3Al via complex stacking faults and twinning boundary

Order–disorder twinning model and stacking faults in -NTO

Grain-boundary dissociation by the emission of stacking faults.

A range of ^110& symmetric tilt grain boundaries ~GB’s! are investigated in several fcc metals with simulations and high-resolution electron microscopy. Boundaries with tilt angles between 50.5° and 109.5° dissociate into two boundaries 0.6 to 1.1 nm apart. The dissociation takes place by the emission of stacking faults from one boundary that are terminated by Shockley partials at a second boun...

Stacking faults and partial dislocations in graphene

We investigate two mechanisms of crystallographic slip in graphene, corresponding to glide and shuffle generalized stacking faults (GSF), and compute their -curves using Sandia National Laboratories Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS). We find evidence of metastable partial dislocations for the glide GSF only. The computed values of the stable and unstable stackin...

Strain hardening and heterogeneous deformation during twinning in Hadfield steel

We identify the role of deformation twinning and twin–twin intersections on the strain hardening behavior of Hadfield steel single crystals using strain field measurements. In situ and ex situ strain field measurements resolved at micrometer length scales are obtained using digital image correlation. Ex situ measurements reveal that macroscopic twin-bands, which are composed of a mixture of fin...

On the energy of terminated stacking faults

The equilibrium of dissociated dislocations is discussed in terms of intrinsic material properties such as the ideal stacking fault energy (ideal SFE) and the stacking fault (SF) strain. The ideal SFE is de® ned as the energy per unit area of an in® nitely extendedSF in an ideal in® nite crystal. The e€ ective SFE is de® ned as the energy per unit area of a terminated SF. The terminated SF is a...