Plastic anisotropy of γ-TiAl revealed by axisymmetric indentation

Acta Materialia

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3516-3530

  Zambaldi, C ^a   Raabe, D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFM; AuCu prototype; Crystal plasticity; EBSD; Instrumented indentation

Indexed keywords

AFM; AXISYMMETRIC INDENTATION; CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIORS; CRYSTAL PLASTICITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISLOCATION GLIDE; INSTRUMENTED INDENTATION; INVERSE POLE FIGURES; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; PILE-UPS; PLASTIC ANISOTROPY; RELATIVE STRENGTH; SINGLE-PHASE REGIONS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOSITIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOINDENTATION; PILES; PLASTICITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77950077494     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.02.025     Document Type: Article

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