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Displacement Mapping During In-Situ Straining in the SEM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Nicholas E. Biery ,
Tresa M. Pollock ,
N.T. Nuhfer  and
Marc De Graef
Nicholas E. Biery
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
Tresa M. Pollock
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
N.T. Nuhfer
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
Marc De Graef
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
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We have developed a technique for measuring small strains during in-situ tensile tests in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The technique uses pattern recognition algorithms to locate markers on a gridded sample before and after deformation. The distortions in the grid are used to calculate the strains at each of the markers. The strains are then displayed in contour plots and correlated with the microstructure of the sample to help understand the local progression of strain as a function of applied load and microstructure.

Tensile experiments were performed on gridded notched and unnotched samples of a Ti-48Al-2Cr- 2Nb alloy (at%) in a Philips XL-30 FEGSEM using a 10,000 N Kamrath-Weiss in-situ straining stage. Gold was evaporated onto the samples through nickel grids with a mesh size of 17 μm. Electron backscatter images of the samples taken during testing were analyzed using a set of, interactive routines written in the Interactive Data Language (IDL).

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In-Situ Microscopy Techniques
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 5 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '99, Microscopy Society of America 57th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 33rd Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon August 1-5, 1999 , August 1999 , pp. 334 - 335
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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1. IDL, Research Systems, Inc. (Boulder CO)Google Scholar
2. This work was carried out with support from the AFOSR under grant # F49620-95-1-0359.Google Scholar