Repulsion leads to coupled dislocation motion and extended work hardening in bcc metals

K Srivastava,D Weygand,P Gumbsch,D Caillard

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18774-1

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Work hardening in bcc single crystals at low homologous temperature shows a strong orientation-dependent hardening for high symmetry loading, which is not captured by classical dislocation density based models. We demonstrate here that the high activation barrier for screw dislocation glide motion in tungsten results in repulsive interactions between screw dislocations, and triggers dislocation motion at applied loading conditions where it is not expected. In situ transmission electron microscopy and atomistically informed discrete dislocation dynamics simulations confirm coupled dislocation motion and vanishing obstacle strength for repulsive screw dislocations, compatible with the kink pair mechanism of dislocation motion in the thermally activated (low temperature) regime. We implement this additional contribution to plastic strain in a modified crystal plasticity framework and show that it can explain the extended work hardening regime observed for [100] oriented tungsten single crystal. This may contribute to better understanding the increase in ductility of highly deformed bcc metals.

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Work hardening in bcc single crystals at low homologous temperature shows a strong orientation-dependent hardening for high symmetry loading, which is not captured by classical dislocation density based models
Since screw dislocations determine the deformation behaviour at low temperatures, we systematically investigate the mutual interaction of screw dislocations in bcc metals using discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) simulations and in situ experiments
DDD simulations are used to investigate the interaction of two screw dislocations on non-coplanar glide systems

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Work hardening in bcc single crystals at low homologous temperature shows a strong orientation-dependent hardening for high symmetry loading, which is not captured by classical dislocation density based models. In situ transmission electron microscopy and atomistically informed discrete dislocation dynamics simulations confirm coupled dislocation motion and vanishing obstacle strength for repulsive screw dislocations, compatible with the kink pair mechanism of dislocation motion in the thermally activated (low temperature) regime We implement this additional contribution to plastic strain in a modified crystal plasticity framework and show that it can explain the extended work hardening regime observed for [100] oriented tungsten single crystal. Dislocation multiplication leads to an increase in dislocation density This in turn is believed to result in work hardening which manifests itself as an increase in the flow stress of the material upon straining and gives e.g. a deep-drawn component its strength and hinders further deformation. Dislocation interactions may result in multi-junctions involving more than two dislocations which in bcc metals have been shown to contribute significantly to work hardening

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