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Crystal
Imperfections
Crystal Imperfections
• An idealized monocrystalline mass does not exist.
• Al solids have a large number of defects or
imperfections
• Some imperfections are induced
CRYSTALLINE IMPERFECTIONS
Crystal Imperfections
• Point Defects
• Vacancies • Interfacial Defects
• Solid solution – External faces
• Interstitial Impurity
• Substitutional Impurity – Grain boundaries
• Dislocations (line defects) • Volume Defects
• Edge
• Screw dislocation
CRYSTALLINE IMPERFECTIONS
Linear defects
D.R. Askeland and P.P. Phule, The Science and Engineering of Materials, Brooks/Cole (2003).
CRYSTALLINE IMPERFECTIONS
Dislocations - Screw
Formed by shear stress
CRYSTALLINE IMPERFECTIONS
Combinations
CRYSTALLINE IMPERFECTIONS
Interfacial defects
- External Surfaces
- Grain boundaries
Volume Defects
• Pores
• Cracks
• Foreign inclusions
• Other phases
CRYSTALLINE IMPERFECTIONS