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Determining the Mechanical Strength of Ultra-Fine-Grained Metals
Published on: November 22, 2021
HRTEM of dislocation cores and thin-foil effects in metals and intermetallic compounds
M J Mills1, N L Baluc, P M Sarosi
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Abstract:
Examples of the observation and analysis of dislocation cores and dislocation fine structure in metals and intermetallics using high resolution transmission electron microscopy are discussed. Specific examples include the 60 degrees dislocations in aluminum, a011 edge dislocations in NiAl, and screw dislocations in Ni3Al. The effect of the thin TEM foils on the structure and imaging of these dislocations is discussed in light of embedded atom method calculations for several configurations and coupled with image simulations. Some generalizations based on these calculations are discussed. These analyses enables determination of the spreading or decomposition of the edge component of the cores, both in and out of the glide plane, which can have significant implications for the modeling of macroscopic behavior.
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