The Orientation Dependence of Work?Hardening in Crystals of Face-centred Cubic Metals

Abstract

It is shown that the principal features of the observed orientation dependence of work-hardening can be accounted for in terms of the likelihood of formation. Of Lomer-Cottrell sessile dislocations in two directions in tb" primary slip plane. This is deduced from the known variation of resolved shear stress with orientation, for the possible secondary slip systems, and metallographic observations of slip and deformation bands.