Twins in Cryomilled and Spark Plasma Sintered Cu-Zn-Al

Author

Haiming Wen, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Enrique J. Lavernia

Abstract

Nanostructured Cu-30 wt.% Zn-0.8 wt.% Al alloy (commercial designation brass 260) was fabricated by cryomilling of brass powders and subsequent spark plasma sintering (SPS). Cryomilling resulted in a high density of deformation twins with an average thickness as small as 4 nm. Following SPS, the bulk samples exhibited 10 vol.% of twins with an average twin thickness of 30 nm and unusual twin morphology, which are rationalized on the basis of grain boundary migration, twin boundary migration, recrystallization and detwinning during SPS.

Recommended Citation

H. Wen and E. J. Lavernia, "Twins in Cryomilled and Spark Plasma Sintered Cu-Zn-Al," Scripta Materialia, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 245 - 248, Elsevier Limited, Aug 2012.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2012.04.024

Department(s)

Materials Science and Engineering

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1359-6462

Document Type

Article - Journal

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Citation

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text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2012 Elsevier Limited, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Aug 2012