Mechanical twinning occurs in metals having which type (s) of crystal structure (s) ?

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Lea Christensen

5 November, 22:09

Mechanical twinning occurs in metals having which type (s) of crystal structure (s) ?

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Talon Bullock · Answer 1

Mechanical twinning occurs in metals having body center cubic and hexagonal closed packed structures. Twinning is said to occur when a portion of a crystal takes up an orientation that is related to the orientation of the untwinned lattice in a definite symmetrical manner.