TLP contents
Main pages
- Aims
- Before you start
- Introduction
- Slip geometry: the critical resolved shear stress
- Geometry during slip
- Slip in HCP metals 1: slip systems
- Slip in HCP metals 2: application of Schmid's Law
- Slip in HCP metals 3: calculation of forces
- Slip in HCP metals 4: observing slip in cadmium
- Video clips of slip in a single cadmium crystal
- Exercise: Determination of the critical resolved shear stress for slip in cadmium
- Slip in CCP metals
- Summary
- Questions
- Going further
Additional pages
Media resources
- Diagram illustrating slip (image)
- Scanning electron micrograph of undeformed cadmium single crystal (image)
- Scanning electron micrograph of cadmium crystal after deformation to 100 % strain (image)
- High magnification image of slip steps in cadmium crystal after deformation to 200 % strain (image)
- Appearance of slip steps as slip begins on a previously undeformed crystal (video)
- Longer version of above (video)
- Slip proceeding on previously deformed crystal 1 (video)
- Slip proceeding on previously deformed crystal 2 (video)
- A cadmium crystal fracturing under tensile load (image)
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