Microstructural evolution of nanolayered Cu-Nb composites subjected to high-pressure torsion

E. H. Ekiz; T. G. Lach; R. S. Averback; N. A. Mara; I. J. Beyerlein; M. Pouryazdan; H. Hahn; P. Bellon

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2014.03.040

Microstructural evolution of nanolayered Cu-Nb composites subjected to high-pressure torsion

E. H. Ekiz, T. G. Lach, R. S. Averback, N. A. Mara, I. J. Beyerlein, M. Pouryazdan, H. Hahn, P. Bellon

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

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Abstract

Bulk nanolayered Cu/Nb composites fabricated by accumulative roll bonding (ARB), leading to a nominal layer thickness of 18 nm, were subjected to large shear deformation by high-pressure torsion at room temperature. The evolution of the microstructure was characterized using X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. At shear strains of ∼4, the crystallographic texture started to change from the one stabilized by ARB, with a Kurdjumov-Sachs orientation relationship and a dominant {1 1 2} _Cu||{1 1 2}_Nb interface plane, toward textures unlike the shear texture of monolithic Cu and Nb. At larger strains, exceeding 10, the initial layered structure was progressively replaced by a three-dimensional Cu-Nb nanocomposite. This structure remained stable with respect to grain size, morphology and global texture from strains of ∼290 to the largest ones used in this study, 5900. The three-dimensional self-organized nanocomposites comprised biconnected Cu-rich and Nb-rich regions, with a remarkably small coexistence length scale, ∼10 nm. The results are discussed in the context of the effect of severe plastic deformation and strain path on microstructure and texture stability in highly immiscible alloy systems.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	178-191
Number of pages	14
Journal	Acta Materialia
Volume	72
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2014.03.040
State	Published - Jun 15 2014

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This work was supported as part of the Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy , Office of Science , Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number 2008LANL1026. APT was performed at the Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (NUCAPT) whose local-electrode atom-probe (LEAP) tomograph was purchased and upgraded with funding from NSF-MRI ( DMR-0420532 ) and ONR-DURIP ( N00014-0400798 , N00014-0610539 , N00014-0910781 ) Grants. Instrumentation at NUCAPT was supported by the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN). NUCAPT is a Shared Facility at the Materials Research Center of Northwestern University, supported by the National Science Foundation’s MRSEC program (DMR-1121262. Stimulating discussions with Drs. A. Misra and J. Carpenter (LANL), and Prof. A. Rollett (CMU), are gratefully acknowledged.

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Copper alloys
High-pressure torsion
Nanocomposite
Niobium alloys
Severe plastic deformation

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