Criteria for slip transfer across grain and twin boundaries in pure Ni

Abstract

Slip transfer at grain boundaries and annealing twin boundaries was studied in polycrystalline Ni by means of slip trace analysis. Slip transfer or blocking was assessed in > 200 boundaries and was related with geometrical criteria that establish the alignment between the active slip systems across the boundaries. It was found that slip transfer mainly occurs at low-angle regular grain boundaries and that a Luster-Morris parameter > 0.8 stands for the best criterion to assess slip transfer. In the case of coherent or incoherent twin boundaries, slip transfer occurs when the residual Burgers vector is close to zero through dislocation cross-slip.