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Tran AS. Influences of grain size and twin boundary on the tensile properties of nanocrystalline face-centered cubic Cu 50Ni 50 alloy. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2022.2080823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Anh-Son Tran
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Khoai Chau, Vietnam
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Yue R, Zhang J, Ke G, Jia G, Huang H, Pei J, Kang B, Zeng H, Yuan G. Effects of extrusion temperature on microstructure, mechanical properties and in vitro degradation behavior of biodegradable Zn-3Cu-0.5Fe alloy. MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. C, MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 2019; 105:110106. [DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2019.110106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2019] [Revised: 08/18/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Li Y, Bushby AJ, Dunstan DJ. The Hall-Petch effect as a manifestation of the general size effect. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 2016; 472:20150890. [PMID: 27436968 DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2015.0890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The experimental evidence for the Hall-Petch dependence of strength on the inverse square-root of grain size is reviewed critically. Both the classic data and more recent results are considered. While the data are traditionally fitted to the inverse square-root dependence, they also fit well to many other functions, both power law and non-power law. There have been difficulties, recognized for half-a-century, in the inverse square-root expression. It is now explained as an artefact of faulty data analysis. A Bayesian meta-analysis shows that the data strongly support the simple inverse or lnd/d expressions. Since these expressions derive from underlying theory, they are also more readily explicable. It is concluded that the Hall-Petch effect is not to be explained by the variety of theories found in the literature, but is a manifestation of, or to be underlain by the general size effect observed throughout micromechanics, owing to the inverse relationship between the stress required and the space available for dislocation sources to operate.
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- Y Li
- School of Physics and Astronomy , Queen Mary University of London , London E1 4NS, UK
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- School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London , London E1 4NS, UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy , Queen Mary University of London , London E1 4NS, UK
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Xiao XZ, Song DK, Chu HJ, Xue JM, Duan HL. Mechanical properties for irradiated face-centred cubic nanocrystalline metals. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 2015; 471:20140832. [PMID: 27547091 DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2014.0832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In this paper, a self-consistent plasticity theory is proposed to model the mechanical behaviours of irradiated face-centred cubic nanocrystalline metals. At the grain level, a tensorial crystal model with both irradiation and grain size effects is applied for the grain interior (GI), whereas both grain boundary (GB) sliding with irradiation effect and GB diffusion are considered in modelling the behaviours of GBs. The elastic-viscoplastic self-consistent method with considering grain size distribution is developed to transit the microscopic behaviour of individual grains to the macroscopic properties of nanocrystals (NCs). The proposed theory is applied to model the mechanical properties of irradiated NC copper, and the feasibility and efficiency have been validated by comparing with experimental data. Numerical results show that: (i) irradiation-induced defects can lead to irradiation hardening in the GIs, but the hardening effect decreases with the grain size due to the increasing absorption of defects by GBs. Meanwhile, the absorbed defects would make the GBs softer than the unirradiated case. (ii) There exists a critical grain size for irradiated NC metals, which separates the grain size into the irradiation hardening dominant region (above the critical size) and irradiation softening dominant region (below the critical size). (iii) The distribution of grain size has a significant influence on the mechanical behaviours of both irradiated and unirradiated NCs. The proposed model can offer a valid theoretical foundation to study the irradiation effect on NC materials.
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- X Z Xiao
- State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex System, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China; CAPT, HEDPS and IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center of MoE, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex System, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Mechanics and Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an 710049, People's Republic of China
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- CAPT, HEDPS and IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center of MoE, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex System, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China; CAPT, HEDPS and IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center of MoE, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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Kumar S, Li X, Haque A, Gao H. Is stress concentration relevant for nanocrystalline metals? NANO LETTERS 2011; 11:2510-2516. [PMID: 21591760 DOI: 10.1021/nl201083t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Classical fracture mechanics as well as modern strain gradient plasticity theories assert the existence of stress concentration (or strain gradient) ahead of a notch tip, albeit somewhat relaxed in ductile materials. In this study, we present experimental evidence of extreme stress homogenization in nanocrystalline metals that result in immeasurable amount of stress concentration at a notch tip. We performed in situ uniaxial tension tests of 80 nm thick (50 nm average grain size) freestanding, single edge notched aluminum specimens inside a transmission electron microscope. The theoretical stress concentration for the given notch geometry was as high as 8, yet electron diffraction patterns unambiguously showed absence of any measurable stress concentration at the notch tip. To identify possible mechanisms behind such an anomaly, we performed molecular dynamics simulations on scaled down samples. Extensive grain rotation driven by grain boundary diffusion, exemplified by an Ashby-Verrall type of grain switching process, was observed at the notch tip to relieve stress concentration. We conclude that in the absence of dislocations, grain realignment or rotation may have played a critical role in accommodating externally applied strain and neutralizes any stress concentration during the process.
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- Sandeep Kumar
- Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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High-Rate Plastic Deformation of Nanocrystalline Tantalum to Large Strains: Molecular Dynamics Simulation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.633-634.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Recent advances in the ability to generate extremes of pressure and temperature in dynamic experiments and to probe the response of materials has motivated the need for special materials optimized for those conditions as well as a need for a much deeper understanding of the behavior of materials subjected to high pressure and/or temperature. Of particular importance is the understanding of rate effects at the extremely high rates encountered in those experiments, especially with the next generation of laser drives such as at the National Ignition Facility. Here we use large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the high-rate deformation of nanocrystalline tantalum to investigate the processes associated with plastic deformation for strains up to 100%. We use initial atomic configurations that were produced through simulations of solidification in the work of Streitz et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, (2006) 225701]. These 3D polycrystalline systems have typical grain sizes of 10-20 nm. We also study a rapidly quenched liquid (amorphous solid) tantalum. We apply a constant volume (isochoric), constant temperature (isothermal) shear deformation over a range of strain rates, and compute the resulting stress-strain curves to large strains for both uniaxial and biaxial compression. We study the rate dependence and identify plastic deformation mechanisms. The identification of the mechanisms is facilitated through a novel technique that computes the local grain orientation, returning it as a quaternion for each atom. This analysis technique is robust and fast, and has been used to compute the orientations on the fly during our parallel MD simulations on supercomputers. We find both dislocation and twinning processes are important, and they interact in the weak strain hardening in these extremely fine-grained microstructures.
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Bitzek E, Brandl C, Derlet PM, Van Swygenhoven H. Dislocation cross-slip in nanocrystalline fcc metals. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 100:235501. [PMID: 18643514 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.235501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Constant strain rate molecular dynamics simulations of nanocrystalline Al demonstrate that a significant amount of dislocations that have nucleated at the grain boundaries, exhibit cross-slip via the Fleischer mechanism as they propagate through the grain. The grain boundary structure is found to strongly influence when and where cross-slip occurs, allowing the dislocation to avoid local stress concentrations that otherwise can act as strong pinning sites for dislocation propagation.
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- E Bitzek
- Materials Science & Simulation, ASQ/NUM, Paul Scherrer Insitut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Sun CQ, Li S, Li CM. Impact of Bond Order Loss on Surface and Nanosolid Mechanics. J Phys Chem B 2004; 109:415-23. [PMID: 16851031 DOI: 10.1021/jp045894e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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An analytical solution shows that a competition between bond order loss and the associated bond strength gain of the lower coordinated atoms near the edge of a surface dictates the mechanics of the surface and, hence, a nanosolid. Bond order loss lowers the activation energy for atomic dislocation, whereas bond strength gain enhances the energy density or mechanical strength in the region near the surface. Therefore, the surface is harder than the bulk interior at temperatures far below the melting point (T(m)), and the surface becomes softer at temperatures close to the surface T(m) that drops because of bond order loss. Matching predictions to measurements reveals that a transition happens to the Hall-Petch relationship for a nanosolid when the effect of bond order loss becomes dominant, and the critical size of the Hall-Petch transition depends intrinsically on the bond nature of the specimen and the ratio of T/T(m), where T is the temperature of operation.
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- Chang Q Sun
- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
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Yamakov V, Wolf D, Phillpot SR, Mukherjee AK, Gleiter H. Deformation-mechanism map for nanocrystalline metals by molecular-dynamics simulation. NATURE MATERIALS 2004; 3:43-47. [PMID: 14704784 DOI: 10.1038/nmat1035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2003] [Accepted: 11/10/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Molecular-dynamics simulations have recently been used to elucidate the transition with decreasing grain size from a dislocation-based to a grain-boundary-based deformation mechanism in nanocrystalline f.c.c. metals. This transition in the deformation mechanism results in a maximum yield strength at a grain size (the 'strongest size') that depends strongly on the stacking-fault energy, the elastic properties of the metal, and the magnitude of the applied stress. Here, by exploring the role of the stacking-fault energy in this crossover, we elucidate how the size of the extended dislocations nucleated from the grain boundaries affects the mechanical behaviour. Building on the fundamental physics of deformation as exposed by these simulations, we propose a two-dimensional stress-grain size deformation-mechanism map for the mechanical behaviour of nanocrystalline f.c.c. metals at low temperature. The map captures this transition in both the deformation mechanism and the related mechanical behaviour with decreasing grain size, as well as its dependence on the stacking-fault energy, the elastic properties of the material, and the applied stress level.
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- V Yamakov
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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