In Situ TEM tensile testing of bicrystals with tailored misorientation angles
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Abstract Grain boundaries have complex structural features that influence strength, ductility and fracture in metals and alloys. Grain boundary misorientation angle has been identified as a key parameter that controls their mechanical behavior, but the effect of misorientation angle has been challenging to isolate in polycrystalline materials. Here, we describe the use of bicrystal Au thin films made using a rapid melt growth process to study deformation at a single grain boundary. Tensile testing is performed on bicrystals with different misorientation angles using in situ TEM, as well as on a single crystalline sample. Plastic deformation is initiated through dislocation nucleation from free surfaces. Grain boundary sliding is not observed, and failure occurs away from the grain boundary through plastic collapse in all cases. The failure behavior in these nanoscale bicrystals does not appear to depend on the misorientation angle or grain boundary energy but instead has a more complex dependence on sample surface structure and dislocation activity.
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OpenAlex topics: Microstructure and mechanical properties · Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties · Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
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