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Videos

Here you will find a collection of videos taken during in-situ TEM (transmission electron microscopy) experiments showing elementary processes of plastic deformation.

Dislocation motion

  • In Al at 400°C

  • In TA6V at room temperature

  • Interaction dislocation-precipitate in an ODS steel (ref [22,24])

  • Dynamic strain ageing in an ODS steel (ref [22,24]): behavior at 350°C (pinning)

and at 550°C (solute drag)

  • Dislocation dipole annihilation in an Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystal (ref [4])

  • Pile-up of dislocations in an ultra fine grained Al: under load

and during unloading

  • Dislocation grain boundary interaction (ref [36])

Motion at grain boundaries and interfaces

  • Grain boundaries motions under stress at 400°C in micron grains Al

  • Idem in a sub-micron grain

  • Shear-migration coupling by motion of a disconnection (dislocation plus step)(ref [32])

  • Dislocation motions in a twin boundary in Al (ref [47])

  • Dislocation source in a general grain boundary in Al (ref [33])

  • Shrinkage of a circular Al grain by capillarity (ref [27])

  • Dislocation emission from an austenite lath growing in a ferrite matrix (ref [52])

  • Al-Al_2Cu eutectic fusion

Deformation mechanisms in whiskers

  • Fragile behavior in an Al wire (ref [28])

and in Be wire (ref [46])

  • Spiral source in an Al wire (ref [28])

  • Dislocation avalanche in an Al wire

  • Twinning in Be wire (ref [46])

Plasticity and irradiation

  • Dislocation irradiation loop interaction in a Zr alloy (ref [49])

  • Helicoidal climb in Mg irradiated in situ with 200 kV electrons

  • Formation of irradiation loops in Mg

  • Unpining of a dislocation loop by electron irradiation in Mg