Microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine-grained fcc/hcp cobalt processed by a bottom-up approach

Fellah, F. and Dirras, G. and Gubicza, Jenő and Schoenstein, F. and Jouini, N. (2010) Microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine-grained fcc/hcp cobalt processed by a bottom-up approach. JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS, 489. pp. 424-428. ISSN 0925-8388

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Abstract

Bulk Co samples having a mean grain size of ∼300nm were processed by hot isostatic pressing of a high purity Co nanopowder synthesized by chimie douce. The grain interior exhibited a highly faulted nanoscale lamellar microstructure comprising an intricate mixture of face-centered cubic, hexagonal close-packed phases and nanotwins. Room temperature compression tests carried out at a strain rate of ∼2×10−4 s−1 revealed a yield stress of ∼1 GPa, a strain to rupture of ∼5%. During straining it was found that the hexagonal close-packed phase content increased from 55% to 65% suggesting a deformation mechanism based on stress-assisted face-centered cubic to hexagonal close-packed phase transformation. In addition, an apparent activation volume of ∼3b3 was computed which indicates that the deformation mechanism was controlled by dislocation nucleation from the numerous boundaries. Nonetheless, in such an intricate microstructure, the overall mechanical properties are discussed in term of a complex interplay between lattice dislocation plasticity, transformation-induced plasticity and possibly twin-induced plasticity.

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