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    On the process of co-deformation and phase dissolution in a hard-soft immiscible CuCo alloy system during high-pressure torsion deformation
    (Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2016) Bachmaier, Andrea; Schmauch, Jörg; Aboulfadl, Hisham; Verch, Andreas; Motz, Christian
    In this study, dual phase Cusingle bondCo composites with a total immiscibility in the solid state and a very different initial phase strength are deformed by severe plastic deformation. Nanocrystalline supersaturated solid solutions are reached in all Cusingle bondCo composites independent of the initial composition. The deformation and mechanical mixing process is studied thoroughly by combining scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, three-dimensional atom probe tomography and nanoindentation. The indentation hardness of the Cu and Co phase and its evolution as a function of the applied strain is linked to deformation and mechanical mixing process to gain a better understanding how the phase strength mismatch of the Cu and Co phase effects the amount of co-deformation and deformation-induced mixing. Our results show that co-deformation is not a necessary requirement to achieve mechanical mixing.
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    Structural evolution and strain induced mixing in Cu-Co composites studied by transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography
    (Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2015) Bachmaier, Andrea; Aboulfadl, H.; Pfaff, Marina; Mücklich, Frank; Motz, Christian
    A Cu–Co composite material is chosen as a model system to study structural evolution and phase formations during severe plastic deformation. The evolving microstructures as a function of the applied strain were characterized at the micro-, nano-, and atomic scale-levels by combining scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy including energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy and electron energy-loss spectroscopy. The amount of intermixing between the two phases at different strains was examined at the atomic scale using atom probe tomography as complimentary method. It is shown that Co particles are dissolved in the Cu matrix during severe plastic deformation to a remarkable extent and their size, number, and volume fraction were quantitatively determined during the deformation process. From the results, it can be concluded that supersaturated solid solutions up to 26 at.% Co in a fcc Cu–26 at.% Co alloy are obtained during deformation. However, the distribution of Co was found to be inhomogeneous even at the highest degree of investigated strain.
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    High strength nanocrystalline Cu–Co alloys with high tensile ductility
    (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018) Bachmaier, Andrea; Rathmayr, Georg Benedikt; Schmauch, Jörg; Schell, Norbert; Stark, Andreas; de Jonge, Niels; Pippan, Reinhard
    A supersaturated single-phase Cu–26 at.% Co alloy was produced by high-pressure torsion deformation, leading to a nanocrystalline microstructure with a grain size smaller than 100 nm. The nonequilibrium solid solution decomposed during subsequent isothermal annealing. In situ high-energy X-ray diffraction was used to map changes linked to the separating phases, and the development of a nanoscale Cu–Co composite structure was observed. To gain further information about the relationship of the microstructure and the mechanical properties after phase separation, uniaxial tensile tests were conducted on as-deformed and isothermally annealed samples. Based on the in situ diffraction data, different isothermal annealing temperatures were chosen. Miniaturized tensile specimens with a round cross section were tested, and an image-based data evaluation method enabled the evaluation of true stress–strain curves and strain hardening behavior. The main results are as follows: all microstructural states showed high strength and ductility, which was achieved by a combination of strain-hardening and strain-rate hardening.