Electron channeling contrast imaging characterization and crystal plasticity modelling of dislocation activity in Ti21S BCC material

In this paper, an original approach is proposed to compare modeling and relevant statistical experiments using β-Ti21S Body Centered Cubic (BCC) metal as a challenging benchmark. Our procedure allows the evolution of microstructural defects to be tracked in situ with excellent spatial resolution, while observing a bulk sample region sufficiently large to be statistically representative of the material. We identify multiple mechanisms such as slip transfer, slip traces, pencil glide, etc. We demonstrate that for small plastic strains (