Dislocation-based plasticity and strengthening mechanisms in sub 20 nm lamellar structures in pearlitic steel wire

作者：Zhang, Xiaodan^*; Hansen, Niels; Godfrey, Andrew; Huang, Xiaoxu

来源：Acta Materialia, 2016, 114: 176-183.

DOI：10.1016/j.actamat.2016.04.040

• Sub-20 nm lamellar structure
• Dislocation-based plasticity
• Strengthening mechanisms
• Strength-structure relationship
• Pearlitic steel wire

The tensile properties and the deformation microstructure of pearlitic steel (0.8 wt % C) have been quantified in wires drawn to strains in the range from 3.7 to 5.4, having a flow stress in the range from 3.5 to 4.5 GPa. With increasing strain the interlamellar spacing (ILS) decreases from about 20 to 10 nm and the thickness of the cementite lamellae decreases from about 2 nm to about 0.7 nm, representing a structure, which breaks up at large strains, decomposes and releases carbon to the ferrite lamellae. The dislocation density increases continuously with strain and reaches about 5 x 10(16) m(-2) at a strain of 5.4; the dislocations are stored as threading dislocations, as dislocation tangles and as cell boundaries with low to medium misorientation angles. An analysis of the evolution of microstructure and strength with increasing strain suggests that dislocation-based plasticity is a dominating mechanism in the wire and three strengthening mechanisms are applied: boundary strengthening, dislocation strengthening and solid solution hardening with their relative contributions to the total flow stress which change as the strain is increased. Based on linear additivity good correspondence between the calculated and the measured flow stress is observed over the strain range 0-5.4. However at large strains beyond 3.7 deviations are observed which are discussed in terms of the applied strength-structure relationships.

• 出版日期2016-8-1
• 单位清华大学