Plastic Deformation of Metals

Course out line

 Course out line
• Crystalline Material
• Crystallography--- Crystal defects
• Deformation -----i) Elastic
ii) Plastic or permanent
Mechanism of Plastic deformation:
i) Slip
ii) Twinning
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• Resolved Shear Stress for Slip
• Strength of a perfect crystal
• Role of a dislocation in deformation
• Dislocation, its observation, Climb and
Cross slip, gogs and Kinks.
• Multiplication of Dislocation
• Dislocation in F.C.C Structure
• Perfect and Partial Dislocation
• Stair Rod Dislocation
• Thomson Tetrahedron
• Deformation in single crystal and
polycrystalline material.
 Cottrell (1953)

• “Few problems of crystal plasticity have proved

more challenging than work hardening. It is a
spectacular effect, for example enabling the
yield strength of pure copper and aluminum
crystals to be raised a hundred fold. Also, it
occupies a central place in the subject, being
related both to the nature of the slip process and
to processes such as recrystallisation and creep.
It was the first problem to be attempted by the
dislocation theory of slip and may well prove the
last to be solved.”
• Strengthening Mechansim
• Creep, Super plasticity, Fatigue .