Spatially resolved in situ strain measurements from an interior twinned grain in bulk polycrystalline AZ31 alloy.pdf

Available online at Acta Materialia 61 (2013) 3612–3620 /locate/actamat Spatially resolved in situ strain measurements from an interior twinned grain in bulk polycrystalline AZ31 alloy L. Balogh a,⇑, S.R. Niezgoda a, A.K. Kanjarla b, D.W. Brown a, B. Clausen c d ´ a , W. Liu , C.N. Tome a Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India c Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA d Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA Received 2 December 2012; received in revised form 23 February 2013; accepted 26 February 2013 Available online 9 April 2013 Abstract In this paper, we report for the first time, to our knowledge, spatially resolved measurements of strain gradients across a grain con- taining twins, located in the bulk of a polycrystalline Mg AZ31 sample. We also report orientation mapping on three parallel sections from the bulk of the sample. We use for such purpose the technique of differential-aperture X-ray microscopy (DAXM) based on syn- chrotron X-rays. The DAXM technique allows us to map crystallographic strains with sub-micron-sized spatial resolution. The results of this experiment confirm indirec