CYCLIC PLASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF UFG COPPER UNDER CONTROLLED STRESS AND STRAIN LOADING.docVIP

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit /licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. L. Navrátilová, K. Obrtlík, L. Kunz: Cyclic plastic behaviour of ufg copper under controlled stress and strain loading 18 CYCLIC PLASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF UFG COPPER UNDER CONTROLLED STRESS AND STRAIN LOADING Lucie Navrátilová , Karel Obrtlík , Ludvík Kunz2 1,* 2 1 Institute of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Technická 2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic 2 Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, ?i?kova 22, 616 62 Brno, Czech Republic corresponding author: Tel.: +420 53 229 0347, e-mail: navratilova@ipm.cz * Resume Article info The influence of stress- and strain-controlled loading on microstructure and cyclic plastic behaviour of ultrafine-grained copper prepared by equal channel angular pressing was examined. The stability of microstructure is a characteristic feature for stress-controlled test whereas grain coarsening and development of bimodal structure was observed after plastic strain- controlled tests. An attempt to explain the observed behaviour was made. Article history: Received 8 August 2011 Accepted 9 November 2011 (in revised form) Online 29 November 2011 Keywords: UFG Cu; ECAP; Fatigue; Stress- and strain-controlled loading ISSN 1335-0803 (print version) ISSN 1338-6174 (online version) Available online: http://fstroj.uniza.sk/journal-mi/PDF/2012/03-2012.pdf understanding of the reaction of UFG 1. Introduction microstructure on different types of fatigue loading is necessary before the UFG materials can be successfully and safely applied in cyclically loaded engineering applications. Ultrafine-grained (UFG) materials pr