The influence of shearable and nonshearable precipitates on the Portevin-Le Chatelier behavior in precipitation hardening AlMgScZr alloys

The well-known mechanisms of interaction between precipitates and dislocations are shearing (for shearable precipitates) and bypassing mechanisms (for nonshearable precipitates). The transition from shearable to nonshearable precipitates in precipitation hardening alloys leads to changes of dislocation motion mode and dislocation multiplication behavior, which inevitably causes different PLC behaviors. In this study, we systematically …