Abstract
The slip behaviour of B2 Fe-Al single crystals has been examined. Fe-rich variations in stoichiometry have resulted in large decreases in the critical resolved shear stress for {110} slip. This decrease has been related to the associated decrease in antiphase-boundary energy from compositional disordering. Quenching has resulted in dramatic increases in strength for both stoichiometric and Fe-rich single crystals. This effect, which occurs without passing through an order-disorder transition, has been attributed to quenching-in of large concentrations of thermal vacancies which act to pin slip dislocations.

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