Abstract
Abstract Stainless steel of approximately 35 ergs/cm2 stacking-fault energy has been subjected to plane shocks of 30 to 360 kilobars. Electron microscopy of the resultant structures showed that in contrast to the steel's behaviour under conventional working conditions, the deformation effected by the shock front produces planar arrays of dislocations at all pressures and that the tangled dislocation cell structure seen in the final specimens is formed by modification of the planar arrays in the more diffuse rarefaction zone. At higher pressures in the range used, deformation by mechanical twinning occurred and a consideration of the shear stresses in the shock front indicates that these exceeded G/50 in these samples and that the twins were formed by homogeneous nucleation.
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