In-situ observation of microcrack initiation and damage nucleation modes on the HAZ of laser-welded DP1180 joint

In-situ SEM can intuitively observe the changes in microstructure and microcrack initiation during the deformation process of the specimen.In this paper,the microstructural evolution,mechanical properties,and damage nucleation modes of DP1180 laser welded joints were systematically discussed by the trans-mission electron microscope(TEM),focused ion beam(FIB),and in-situ tensile test.The precipitation of carbides and disappearance of dislocations tangles deteriorated the mechanical properties of tempered martensite in the sub-critical heat affected zone(SCHAZ),which caused its microhardness slightly de-creased(∼27 HV)and also called the softened zone.The joints fractured in the SCHAZ during the tensile and Erichsen cupping tests and microcracks initiated from the tempered martensite,while the microc-rack initiation of base material(BM)occurred at the ferrite/martensite interface.The dominant damage nucleation mode of the joint was tempered martensite cracking,and that of BM was ferrite/martensite interface decohesion during tests.

Diurnal variation of number concentration and size distribution of ultrafine particles in the urban atmosphere of Beijing in winter

Number concentration and distribution of airborne particles in the size range 5.6 to 560 nm diameter were measured in Beijing for a 15-d period in winter 2005. Dally average number concentrations of nucleation mode （5.6-20 um）, Aitken mode （20-100 um）, and accumulation mode （100-560 um） particles, and total particles were 17500, 32000, 4000, and 53500 cm^-3, respectively. Average particle size distribution was monomodal with a mode diameter of about 40 um at night and bimodal with mode diameters of about 10 and about 40 um during the daytime. New particle formation events, which were connected to diurnal variation of nucleation mode particles, were observed in more than half of the observation days. The events often started around 10：00-11：00 Chinese Standard Time （CST） and ended up after 3-4 h. Concentrations of Aitken and accumulation mode particles increased from midnight and reached their maxima at about 10：00 CST, and then decreased and became the lowest in the afternoon. Analysis of diurnal cycles in traffic volume and meteorological parameters revealed that the accumulation of the particles in Aitken and accumulation modes in the morning was influenced by formation of an inversion and increase in vehicle emission, and dispersion of such particles in the afternoon was associated with more effective vertical mixing and higher wind speed.

Crystallographic evidences for twin-assisted eutectic growth in undercooled Ni-18.7 at.%Sn eutectic melts

Rapid solidification in undercooled Ni-18.7 at.%Sn eutectic melts was observed in-situ by a high-speed high-resolution camera and the microstructures were characterized in detail by electron backscattering diffraction.For the first time,the exact crystallographic orientation relations(ORs)between HCP-Ni_(3)Sn(α-Ni)subsets were analyzed.For HCP-Ni_(3)Sn,the{1121}<1126>and/or{1122}<1123>twin ORs(i.e.,HCP-Ni_(3)Sn twins)hold independently on undercooling,whereas forα-Ni,the{111}<112>twin OR is the case at low undercooling and would hold initially at intermediate and high undercooling.The roles of twinning and allotropy transformation(i.e.,FCC-Ni_(3)Sn→HCP-Ni_(3)Sn)were integrated to reveal the formation mechanism of HCP-Ni_(3)Sn twins,and a reversed OR transition analysis was carried out for rep-resentative samples from low to high undercooling.Consequently,novel twin-assisted eutectic growth was found to occur all along.On this basis,we showed that the single nucleation mode of Herlach is followed,and speculated that primary and secondary coupled eutectic dendrite growth and un-coupled growth ofα-Ni and FCC-Ni_(3)Sn might all be the origins of anomalous eutectics.This work would shed some lights on the long-time controversies about the nucleation mode and the formation mechanism of anomalous eutectics in undercooled eutectic alloys.