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Stability of Fatigued Dislocation Wall Structure in Coarse-Grained and Ultrafine-Grained Aluminum against Monotonic Tensile Deformation
Yukito NakanishiYoji MiyajimaToshiyuki FujiiSusumu OnakaMasaharu Kato
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2013 Volume 54 Issue 1 Pages 43-49

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Coarse-grained (CG) and ultrafine-grained (UFG) pure aluminum samples fabricated by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) were cyclically deformed at 77 K under constant plastic strain amplitude. Monotonic tensile tests were performed at 300 and 77 K soon after the fatigue tests. In spite of the increase in the tensile strength of fatigued CG Al, tensile ductility decreased remarkably in comparison to that of as-annealed CG Al. On the other hand, the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and tensile ductility of UFG Al were much higher at 77 K than those at 300 K. Furthermore, UFG Al at 77 K maintained high UTS and high tensile ductility even after fatigue tests. Microstructural observation has revealed that dislocation wall structure formed in fatigued CG Al persists after the monotonic tensile tests. However, dislocation wall structure formed in fatigued UFG Al disappeared during early stages of monotonic tensile tests at both 300 and 77 K. These results indicate that the dislocation wall structure in UFG Al is unstable against succeeding monotonic tensile deformation.

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