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On the yield point of icosahedral AlCuFe quasicrystals

Nadine Baluc
2003
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Transient creep (1) tests have been performed at the yield point of icosahedral AlCuFe poly-quasicrystalline specimens in order to investigate the actual causes of this phenomenon. The experimental results strongly suggest that the yield point occurrence is essentially related to the lack of dislocation mobility and that a competition does exist between dislocation velocity and short range recovery. (C) 2003 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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2003
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Creep (deformation)

In materials science, creep (sometimes called cold flow) is the tendency of a solid material to undergo slow deformation while subject to persistent mechanical stresses. It can occur as a result of long-term exposure to high levels of stress that are still below the yield strength of the material. Creep is more severe in materials that are subjected to heat for long periods and generally increase as they near their melting point. The rate of deformation is a function of the material's properties, exposure time, exposure temperature and the applied structural load.

Dislocation

In materials science, a dislocation or Taylor's dislocation is a linear crystallographic defect or irregularity within a crystal structure that contains an abrupt change in the arrangement of atoms. The movement of dislocations allow atoms to slide over each other at low stress levels and is known as glide or slip. The crystalline order is restored on either side of a glide dislocation but the atoms on one side have moved by one position. The crystalline order is not fully restored with a partial dislocation.

Yield (engineering)

In materials science and engineering, the yield point is the point on a stress-strain curve that indicates the limit of elastic behavior and the beginning of plastic behavior. Below the yield point, a material will deform elastically and will return to its original shape when the applied stress is removed. Once the yield point is passed, some fraction of the deformation will be permanent and non-reversible and is known as plastic deformation.

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