The Effect of Twinning on the Mechanical Properties of Alloy 825

Sammanfattning: Twinning is a known phenomenon in material science, but how is it connected with grain size and yield strength? Investigations are made on alloy 825 with light optical microscopy for 19 samples to calculate the twin fraction and grain size. Afterwards, the results are compared to yield strength throughout tensile tests. The samples have different reduction of dimension by hot rolling and have been annealed for different time intervals. It turns out that twinning makes alloy 825 slightly softer and more ductile on a smaller scale, since the twin fraction increases when the yield strength decreases. However, the grain size also slightly increases when the yield strength decreases, which is important to have in mind for the connection with the three of them.