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Item The influence of high-temperature tensile deformation on microstructure evolution in select BCC metals(2015-12) Noell, Philip James; Taleff, Eric M.; Bourell, David L; Engelhardt, Michael; Ferreira, Paulo; Kovar, DesiderioHigh-temperature plastic deformation can enhance the rate of grain boundary migration in some metals. In the body-centered-cubic (BCC) refractory metals molybdenum and tantalum, this increased rate of grain boundary migration produces abnormal grain growth at temperatures significantly lower than is possible by static annealing. This phenomenon is termed dynamic abnormal grain growth (DAGG). The influence of microstructure on DAGG is studied by examining the morphology of DAGG grains produced in two Mo sheet materials. DAGG grain propagation in these materials is not uniform throughout the sheet thickness. Variations through the sheet thickness in texture and grain size are explored as causes of these behaviors. DAGG grains in both materials preferentially grow into the finest-grained polycrystalline regions of the sheet. Direct effects of local crystallographic texture variation are not evident in microstructures containing DAGG grains. The initiation of abnormal grains in Mo materials by plastic straining at elevated temperatures is investigated. The minimum strain necessary to initiate DAGG, termed the critical strain, decreases approximately linearly with increasing temperature. The variation in critical strain values observed at a single temperature and strain rate is well described by a normal distribution. An increased fraction of grains aligned with the <110> along the tensile axis, a preferred orientation for DAGG grains, appears to decrease the critical strain for DAGG initiation. Uniaxial tension tests at temperatures between 1650 and 1950 °C were conducted with commercial-purity Mo rods to determine if DAGG can be used to produce large single crystals of Mo. Necking in these tensile rod specimens during the production of DAGG grains presents a potential issue with translation to commercial application. High-temperature tensile tests were also performed on another BCC metal, an interstitial-free steel. Grain growth in this interstitial-free steel during high-temperature plastic deformation is significantly accelerated above that of the static case. Grains generally oriented between {112}<110> and {111}<113> grow more readily than other grains during dynamic grain growth in this material.Item Tectonic fibrous veins: initiation and evolution. Ouachita Orogen, Arkansas(2009-05-15) Cervantes, PabloVeins are ubiquitous features in deformed rocks. Despite observations on syntectonic veins spanning two centuries, fundamental questions remain unanswered. Their origin as fractures is largely established but it is still not known why these fractures initiate where they do and how the vein evolves once started. We studied veins from the Lower Ordovician Mazarn Formation in the Arkansas? Ouachitas combining textural observations, stable isotopes, fluid inclusions, SEM-based cathodoluminescence and electron back-scattered diffraction to understand the initial stage of vein formation, its later evolution, the role of fluids and their environment of formation. The veins are located at boudin necks and are synchronous with cleavage formation. Texturally, veins are characterized by veinlets (thin veins between 5 and 25 ?m thick) that parallel the vein-host interface and fibers (columns of quartz or calcite) perpendicular to the vein-host interface between 30 and 350 ?m wide. Veinlets are localized fractures filled with quartz. The crystallographic orientation of the precipitated material in veinlets is inherited from host grains at the micron scale and replicated as fibers? lengths grow to centimeters. The vein-forming fluid was cyclically supersaturated yet never very far from saturation. ?18O values of vein quartz and host are within 2? of each other suggesting that the fluid was rock-buffered. Nevertheless, ?18O and ?13C define a ?J? shaped trend. Although it is not possible to date any portion of this curve, the simplest explanation is that the fluid evolved from rock-buffered in a closed system to fluid-dominated in an open system. The range of pressure-temperature conditions of vein formation is between 275 and 385 ?C and 1100 and 3400 bars, from fluid inclusions and quartz-calcite oxygen isotopes thermometry. By examining a vein from tip to middle, we have established a sequence of events from inception to maturity in vein growth. Vein formation starts with folding followed by flattening of resistant sandstone layers which in turn gives rise to boudinage. Boudinage formation allowed for fracture localization along boudin-necks. The vein grew by the repeated addition of veinlets in the neck region. Recrystallization later modified the fibers by obliterating some evidence of the veinlets and moving fiber walls.