Strain Hardening Case Study

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Strain Hardening Behaviour of HCP,BCC,FCC Strain hardening is the additional stress required to cause slip in a material. It occurs when dislocations in a crystal interact with each other or when the dislocations observe hindrance in their motion. Either dislocations pile up at the barriers of slip plane of crystal or they intersect other dislocations. The latter can result in jogs which restrict its motion. Jogs readily occur in the cases of screw dislocations which cases to restrict the dislocation movement thus increasing strain hardening but not so in case pf edge dislocation. The strain hardening or work hardening behavior for FCC, BCC and HCP can be observed by taking the case of Iron, copper and magnesium where iron is BCC, copper is …show more content…

with increase in resolved shear strain there is no increase in resolved shear stress further. To understand this in the case of magnesium which is HCP, the c/a ratio is less (or deceases) in which the 12 slip systems present in the HCP act in the same manner hence demanding less strain. In the case of HCP, there exist total of 12 slip system pertaining to the basal plane packing (0001) being the close packed plane and three slip direction (-- removed HTML --) being the closed packed direction(generally slip occurs in along the plane which possesses high atomic density in close pack directions) making three systems, similarly 6 vertical ones and three more In {10 10}, adding to total 12 slip systems where hcp exhibits ductile material property only when operated on basal plane where the c/a ratio is important, possessing an average value of 1.632. So even when HCP materials exhibit brittle behavior, magnesium possessing less c/a ratio of 1.624 makes it ductile, thus less work hardening. Easy glide occurs here where the dislocations can move around in the crystal without encountering hindrances). Easy glide is favored mostly by slip on single system, high purity and low

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