Browsing by Author "Ogata, Shigenobu"

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Mechanism transition and strong temperature dependence of dislocation nucleation from grain boundaries: An accelerated molecular dynamics study
(2016-09-14)
Du, Jun-Ping
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Wang, Yun-Jiang
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Lo, Yu-Chieh
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Wan, Liang
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Ogata, Shigenobu
Accelerated molecular dynamics reveals a mechanism transition and strong temperature dependence of dislocation nucleation from grain boundaries (GBs) in Cu. At stress levels up to similar to 90% of the ideal dislocationnucleation stress, atomic shuffling at the E structural unit in a GB acts as a precursor to dislocation nucleation, and eventually a single dislocation is nucleated. At very high stress levels near the ideal dislocation-nucleation stress, a multiple dislocation is collectively nucleated. In these processes, the activation free energy and activation volume depend strongly on temperature. The strain-rate dependence of the critical nucleation stress is studied and the result shows that the mechanism transition from the shuffling-assisted dislocation-nucleation mechanism to the collective dislocation-nucleationmechanism occurs during the strain rate increasing from 10(-4) s(-1) to 10(10) s(-1).
Origin of serrated flow in bulk metallic glasses
(2019-03-01)
Xie, Xie
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Lo, Yu-Chieh
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Tong, Yang
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Qiao, Junwei
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Wang, Gongyao
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) possess amorphous structure and show unique mechanical properties, such as extremely high strength and excellent damage tolerance, entitling them as potential structural materials. So far a great amount of work has been conducted to study BMGs' macroscopic mechanical properties and examine corresponding microscopic deformation defects. However, the connection between macroscopic inhomogeneous deformation at room temperature and microscopic deformation carriers is still poorly understood, due to the lack of an appropriate experimental technique to directly probe the inhomogeneous deformation process on the proper spatial and temporal scales. Here we present the deformation details via in situ thermal imaging about the evolution of heat bands associated with successive serration behavior. For the first time, our experimental work clarifies the coupling of serrated flows with shear band activities, especially the often omitted fine serrations induced by shear band nucleation or the early stage of propagation. Meanwhile, serration behavior of BMGs is simulated through the kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) method by integrating local heating (thermal softening and beta-relaxation) effects, which exhibits good agreement with experimental results. These findings will advance our fundamental understanding of the shear band operation down to microscopic level, which may shed light on the control of shear banding for the application of BMGs. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Phase transformation assisted twinning in a face-centered-cubic FeCrNiCoAl0.36 high entropy alloy
(2019-12-01)
Yu, Peijun
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Feng, Rui
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Du, Junping
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Shinzato, Shuhei
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Chou, Jyh-Pin
The FeNiCoCr-based high entropy alloys (HEAs) exhibit excellent mechanical properties, such as twin-induced plasticity (TWIP) and phase transformation plasticity (TRIP) that can reach a remarkable combination of strength and ductility. In the present work, the face-centered-cubic (FCC) single-crystal FeNiCoCrAl0.36 HEAs were studied, using the density functional theory (DFT) combined with the phonon calculation to estimate the stacking fault energies, temperature-dependent phase stabilities of different structures. And the kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) was used to predict the substructures evolution based on the transition state energies obtained from DFT calculations. We proposed two different formation paths of nano-twins in this Al-composited HEA and found that short-range hexagonal-close-packed (HCP)-stacking could occur in this HEA. The DFT calculations suggest that this HEA has negative stacking fault energy (SFE), HCP formation energy, and twin-formation energy at OK. Phonon calculations indicate that at the finite temperature, the competing FCC/HCP phase stability and propensity for twinning make it possible to form HCP-like twin boundaries. The kMC simulations suggest that under deformation, TWINs could form within the HCP laths which differs from the study of others. With the great agreement of results from kMC simulations and experiments, this twin-hcp laminated substructure formation path offers a new concept of designing TWIP HEAs containing tunable twin structures with HCP and TWIN lamellae structures, which could result in better mechanical properties of HEAs. (C) 2019 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.