4^th European Mechanics of Materials Conference on Processes, Microstructures and Mechanical Properties

J. Phys. IV France 11 (2001) Pr4-357-Pr4-364
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:2001443

Mechanical behaviour of alloys containing stable or evolving heterogeneous arrangements of particles

J. Lépinoux¹ and Y. Estrin<sup>2, 3

1</sup>  Laboratoire de Thermodynamique et Physico-Chimie Métallurgique, UMR 5614 du CNRS, INPG, Domaine Universitaire de Grenoble, BP. 75, 38402 Saint-Martin-d'Hères cedex, France
²  Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6907, Australia
³  Geschäfts Führender Leiter, Institut füt Werkstoffkunde und Werkstofftechnik, Technische Universität Clausthal, Agricolastr. 6, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.

Abstract
The effect of second phase particles on the deformation behaviour of a particle strengthened (e.g. oxide dispersion strengthened) alloy was studied. Instead of dealing with average characteristics of dislocation glide (such as the average mean free path), a particular distribution of particles in the glide plane was considered. A homogenisation technique based on the Delaunay triangulation was used that is considered to be a better representation of local particle arrangement than the Voronoi tessellation proposed previously. A softening effect of particle clustering was found. The method was also applied to a population of particles whose density decreases during plastic deformation due to Ostwald ripening.

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