Nano-Indentation Studies of Twinned Magnesium Single Crystals

Nano-indentation measurements have been performed on {10–12}<10–11> twin and adjacent matrix regions of deformed magnesium single crystals and the hardness values were analyzed by the Oliver-Pharr method. Although the hardness difference between the twin regions and the adjacent matrix was insignificantly small, the hardness values showed orientation dependence regardless of the twins’ size and variants. This observation can be interrupted by texture- …