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Low-temperature plastic deformation of BCC metals with internal magnetic order
Holzer, Jakub ; Máthis,, Kristián (oponent) ; Mrověc, Matouš (oponent) ; Gröger, Roman (vedoucí práce)
While plastic deformation of body-centered cubic (bcc) metals at low temperatures is now well understood, the effect of internal magnetic order on mechanical properties and the effect of plastic deformation of internal magnetic order remain largely unexplained. The aim of this thesis is to elucidate the low-temperature plastic deformation of -iron and chromium with focus on magnetism. It is investigated by slip-trace analysis of deformed specimens, electron backscattered diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) where necessary. The internal magnetic order in chromium is explored by means of magnetic neutron diffraction at SINQ facility of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. The vibrating vample magnetometry is utilized to look for changes in mass susceptibility in order to discriminate between different magnetic states. The anomalous slip was found in a deformed chromium specimen for the first time. The dislocation network responsible for the anomalous slip is characterized by the g · b analysis in TEM, where a network of 1/2111 intersecting screw dislocations and their 100 junctions were observed to form on low-stressed {110} planes. Furthermore, twins produced by antitwinning shear were found in chromium, but not in -Fe. This phenomenon is explained using atomistic simulations employing semi-empirical interatomic potentials. The magnetism in -iron is studied by the vibrating sample magnetometry and the results are reconciled using the Jiles-Atherton model. The magnetic domains in -Fe were imaged by the Kerr microscopy and the results show that twins can effectively block the movement of domain walls and nucleate new ones.
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