A Statistical Analysis on Twin Nucleation and Growth Related to Microstructure of AZ31 Mg Alloy
CHEN Yuan1,2, LAN Yongting3, ZHANG Keshi1,CAI Ganwei2, HU Guijuan1
1 College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004; 2 School of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004; 3 School of Vocational and Technical Education, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou 545006;
Abstract: The present work aimed to extract the relationships between twin nucleation and growth and material microstructure in magnesium, and conducted a statistical analysis on EBSD-obtained numerous crystallographic test data such as grain size, crystal orientation, grain boundary misorientation and twin number, twin thick generated by electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD) technique. The statistical analysis of microstructure at a strain of 4.9% indicates that the distribution characteristics of grain size, grain boundary misorientation follow basically a Weibull distribution, and that large grains, high Schmid factors and low-angle grain boundaries are conducive to twin nucleation, but twin growth shows relatively low sensitiveness towards the above microstructure. But not all twin variants with high twin Schmid factors can nucleate and grow. The analyses of twin nucleation and growth at varying true strains also indicate that the intensities of twin variants nucleation at different position are inconsistent in the same grain due to other factors, such as defects, and dislocation, etc., that deeply influence twin nucleation. And on the other side, the twin growth rate strongly depends simultaneously on the number of twin nucleation and the number of twin variants. This work will provide a test basis for the exploration of mathematical relations between microstructure and twin nucleation & growth for Mg alloys.
陈渊, 蓝永庭, 张克实, 蔡敢为, 胡桂娟. AZ31镁合金微结构关联的孪生形核与长大统计分析[J]. 材料导报, 2018, 32(20): 3566-3572.
CHEN Yuan, LAN Yongting, ZHANG Keshi,CAI Ganwei, HU Guijuan. A Statistical Analysis on Twin Nucleation and Growth Related to Microstructure of AZ31 Mg Alloy. Materials Reports, 2018, 32(20): 3566-3572.
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