Micron-Scale Deformation: A Coupled In Situ Study of Strain Bursts and Acoustic Emission

Hegyi, Ádám István and Ispánovity, Péter Dusán and Knapek, Michal and Tüzes, Dániel and Máthis, Kristián and Dankházi, Zoltán and Varga, Gábor and Groma, István (2017) Micron-Scale Deformation: A Coupled In Situ Study of Strain Bursts and Acoustic Emission. MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS, 23 (6). pp. 1076-1081. ISSN 1431-9276 (print); 1435-8115 (online)

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Abstract

Plastic deformation of micron-scale crystalline materials differ considerably from bulk ones, because it is characterized by random strain bursts. To obtain a detailed picture about this stochastic phenomenon, micron sized pillars have been fabricated and compressed in the chamber of a SEM. An improved FIB fabrication method is proposed to get non-tapered micro-pillars with a maximum control over their shape. The in-situ compression device developed allows high accuracy sample positioning and force/displacement measurements with high data sampling rate. The collective avalanche-like motion of dislocations appears as stress drops on the stress-strain curve. To confirm that these stress drops are directly related to dislocation activity, and not to some other effect, an acoustic emission transducer has been mounted under the sample to record emitted acoustic activity during strain-controlled compression tests of Al-5\% Mg micro-pillars. The correlation between the stress drops and the acoustic emission signals indicates that indeed dislocation avalanches are responsible for the stochastic character of the deformation process.

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