THE EFFECTS OF CYCLIC STRESSING ON PREFERRED ORIENTATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE ALUMINUM.

Abstract

In spite of having caused severe macroscopic transgranular plastic deformation, the push-pull cyclic loading process does not appear to produce preferred orientation of the surface layers. Further, the surface morphology does not appear to be conclusively related to pre-existing preferred orientations. Conclusions are based on commercially pure aluminum, a metal with unusually high stacking fault energy, so that they should not be extended to other facecentered-cubic metals that twin easily such as copper and austenitic stainless steel. Since the deformation extends across grain boundaries future efforts might well be devoted to oriented metallographic studies comparing grain boundaries before and after cyclic stressing. Such studies may reveal much about the slip geometry. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0624651

Entities

People

  • George Noboru Yamamoto

Organizations

  • University of New Hampshire

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Boundaries
  • Crystal Structure
  • Geometry
  • Grain Boundaries
  • Metals
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Plastic Deformation
  • Polycrystals
  • Stainless Steel
  • Steel

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • Systems Analysis and Design