Cyclic softening behaviors of ultra-fine grained Cu-Zn alloys

Low-cycle fatigue tests were carried out on ultra-fine grained (UFG) Cu and Cu-Zn alloys to reveal the mechanisms of cyclic softening and the effects of dislocation slip mode. Based on careful examinations of the grain coarsening (GC), shear band (SB) evolutions and surface hardness change during cyclic deformation, the microscopic mechanisms of the cyclic softening process and the correlations between GC and SBs were deeply revealed. Besides, a...