title: In situ nanoindentation study on plasticity and work hardening in aluminium with incoherent twin boundaries.
abstract: Nanotwinned metals have been the focus of intense research recently, as twin boundaries may greatly enhance mechanical strength, while maintaining good ductility, electrical conductivity and thermal stability. Most prior studies have focused on low stacking-fault energy nanotwinned metals with coherent twin boundaries. In contrast, the plasticity of twinned high stacking-fault energy metals, such as aluminium with incoherent twin boundaries, has not been investigated. Here we report high work hardening capacity and plasticity in highly twinned aluminium containing abundant Σ3{112} incoherent twin boundaries based on in situ nanoindentation studies in a transmission electron microscope and corresponding molecular dynamics simulations. The simulations also reveal drastic differences in deformation mechanisms between nanotwinned copper and twinned aluminium ascribed to stacking-fault energy controlled dislocation-incoherent twin boundary interactions. This study provides new insight into incoherent twin boundary-dominated plasticity in high stacking-fault energy twinned metals.
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA [2] Radiation-Solid Interactions Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bufford
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA [2] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA [2] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang