Studying plasticity in hard and soft Nb-Co intermetallics
Korte S, Clegg WJ (2012)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2012
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Book Volume: 14
Pages Range: 991-997
Journal Issue: 11
DOI: 10.1002/adem.201200175
Abstract
It is shown that micropillar compression can be used to study the plastic flow behavior of both a hard, brittle cubic Laves phase, NbCo 2, and a related monoclinic compound, Nb 2Co 7, which is known to be softer, but is also brittle and has, so far, only been prepared in a fine-grained form. Flow in the Laves phase occurs at a shear stress of 3.1 GPa on the $\left\langle {0{\bar {1}}{\bar {1}}} \right\rangle ${111} slip system, consistent with previous observations and estimates from hardness measurement. Micropillar compression and electron microscopy of single crystals of Nb 2Co 7 indicates that flow takes place parallel to the (001) plane, with $\left\langle {100} \right\rangle $ and $\left\langle {110} \right\rangle $ type Burgers vectors, at a critical resolved shear stress between 0.1 and 0.5 GPa. It is shown that this is much less than predicted by hardness measurements, consistent with the idea that the hardness of plastically anisotropic materials is determined by flow on the hardest operating slip system. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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APA:
Korte, S., & Clegg, W.J. (2012). Studying plasticity in hard and soft Nb-Co intermetallics. Advanced Engineering Materials, 14(11), 991-997. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.201200175
MLA:
Korte, Sandra, and William J. Clegg. "Studying plasticity in hard and soft Nb-Co intermetallics." Advanced Engineering Materials 14.11 (2012): 991-997.
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