The characteristics of lamellar bands developed in cold-rolled Ta10W alloy at low strains

Abstract Elongated lamellar bands parallel to rolling plane are usually formed in γ-fiber of Ta W alloys at high strains. However, in this study, a type of lamellar bands oriented with α-fiber is formed in Ta 10 W alloy cold-rolled to 5%. Meanwhile, island equiaxed grains with special orientations can be seen in the lamellar bands. Furthermore, the lamellar bands are not homogenously distributed in the whole samples and concentrated in some elongated-grain bands. Although the lamellar bands are composed of extending planar dislocation boundaries with one or two dislocation cells across, they cannot result from incremental rotation of microbands or microshear bands, since no shear bands appear in these lamellar bands at such low strain. Therefore, the lamellar bands can be initiated by the retained elongated lamellar boundaries after annealing. They show a persistent microstructural feature as the ratio of reduction increases. As the hardness and dislocation density of the persistent lamellar bands is quite different from that of other deformed microstructures, these bands are bad for plastic deformation process. Meanwhile, protrusions at high-angle lamellar boundaries migrating to the recovered lamellar bands are observed during annealing because of the inhomogeneous dislocation microstructure. The lamellar bands can be fully eliminated when the annealing temperature reaches 1500 °C.