{"title":"Computer simulation of the fracture of carbon nanotubes in a hydrogen environment","authors":"L. Zhou, S. Shi","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240433","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to study the mechanical properties of armchair-type single-walled and multiple-walled carbon nanotubes under tensile loading with and without hydrogen storage. Advanced bond order potentials were used in the simulations. Hydrogen molecules stored inside or outside nanotubes reduced the fracture strength of nanotubes. During the deformation, some C‒C bonds were broken and reconstructed. If hydrogen molecules were around, hydrogen atoms would compete with the carbon atoms, to form the H‒C bonds, which reduces the mechanical strength of nanotubes. Such detrimental effect of hydrogen is enhanced if the curvature of the tubes is increased, or if hydrogen is stored in a multiple-walled carbon nanotube.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114587751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scaling relations for crack-tip plasticity","authors":"A. Hartmaier, P. Gumbsch","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240432","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The fracture toughness of semibrittle materials such as bcc transition metals or semiconductor crystals strongly depends on loading rate and temperature. If crack-tip plasticity is considered to be thermally activated, a strong correlation between these quantities is expected. An Arrhenius-like scaling relation between the loading rate and the brittle-to-ductile transition temperature has already been reported. In the present work, two-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of crack-tip plasticity are employed to show that the different combinations of loading rates and temperatures which yield the same fracture toughness are indeed correlated by a scaling relation. This scaling relation is closely related to the law used to describe dislocation motion. A strong correlation between loading rate and temperature is found in the entire temperature regime in which crack-tip plasticity is controlled by dislocation mobility. This shows the importance of dislocation mobility for fracture toughness below the brittle-to-ductile transition and for the transition itself. The findings of our simulations are consistent with experimental data gathered on tungsten single crystals and suggest that non-screw dislocations are dominating crack-tip plasticity in the semibrittle regime of this material.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129697454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of hydrostatic pressure on the flow and fracture of a bulk amorphous metal","authors":"J. Lewandowski, P. Lowhaphandu","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240453","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The flow and fracture behaviour of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be bulk amorphous metal have been determined in tension and compression at room temperature with levels of superimposed hydrostatic pressure ranging from 0.1 to 700 MPa. Metallographically polished cylindrical specimens tested in uniaxial tension and compression were utilized in the high pressure tests, while polished cylindrical torsion specimens were tested at 0.1 MPa (i.e. atmospheric pressure) in order to approach conditions of pure shear. All the tension and torsion tests, regardless of the level of superimposed pressure, exhibited linear elastic failure, as did the compression tests conducted with low levels (e.g. less than 450 MPa) of pressure. At the highest pressures (i.e. 450 MPa or higher), the compression tests exhibited elastic-perfectly plastic behaviour and an increase in the compressive elongation to fracture. The flow stress and fracture stress were not significantly affected by the superposition of pressure as failure occurred in shear, indicative of pressure-independent behaviour over the range tested. However, a change in fracture plane angle was detected. Tensile fracture surfaces were oriented at 50–59°; compression fracture surfaces were oriented at 40°. The flow and fracture behaviours were analysed in terms of a Mohr-Coulomb criterion of the form τc = 950 MPa - 0.038ω;n over the range of stress states examined. The results are discussed in the light of the various yield criteria and the flow and fracture theories provided for amorphous metallic systems.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123560130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Pettinari-Sturmel, M. Jouiad, H. Kirchner, N. Clément, A. Coujou
{"title":"Local disordering and reordering phenomena induced by mobile dislocations in short-range-ordered solid solutions","authors":"F. Pettinari-Sturmel, M. Jouiad, H. Kirchner, N. Clément, A. Coujou","doi":"10.1080/01418610208239633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208239633","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Dislocation motion in short-range-ordered solid solutions under stress are investigated in situ by transmission electron microscopy. For the first time, local reordering created by the back slip of mobile dislocations is proven to exist. Dislocation movement within pile-ups produces local disordering by forward slip during loading, and local reordering by back slip during unloading. Within a pile-up, the driving force for this mechanism is the diffuse antiphase-boundary energy created by the movement of the leading dislocation.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134638759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brittle-to-ductile transition and slip band structure in ionic crystals","authors":"N. Narita, Y. Takahara, K. Higashida","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240436","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The interrelation between the brittle-to-ductile transition (BDT) and slip structure has been examined using NaCl and KCl crystals. In pre-cracked crystals of NaCl and KCl having a ⟨100⟩ axis, the fracture toughness K*ic increases above 300 and 220 K, and the BDT occurs at 510 and 430 K respectively. Scale-like wavy lines are revealed ahead of a pre-crack on etched fracture faces of NaCl tested above 300 K. As the temperature increases, the step height and density of the lines are increased but the lines are more restricted near the pre-crack front. In NaCl and KCl crystals without pre-cracking, the critical resolved shear stress for {110} main slip is very low above 77 K, while that for {010} slip markedly increases as temperature decreases below 500 and 300 K respectively. In ⟨100⟩-uniaxial tests for non-pre-cracked NaCl crystals, the BDT takes place at around 380 and 480 K at strain rates of 5.5 × 10−6 and 5.5 × 10−5s−1 respectively. Above the BDT temperature, wavy slip lines are abundantly produced by the marked operation of cross-slip. A mechanism based on the crack tip shielding through the cross-slip of dislocations along a crack front is proposed to explain observed crack face morphology as well as the BDT in ionic crystals of NaCl structure.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123503771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micromechanical models and the statistical analysis of fracture and fracture toughness","authors":"J. Knott","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240455","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper addresses ways in which distributions of defects in engineering alloys lead to a distribution or ′scatter′ in measures of resistance to plastic flow or brittle fracture. The argument is that the statistical treatment and interpretation of any such distribution should be based on inferences drawn from micromechanical modelling of flow and fracture processes, rather than from empirical analysis. Examples cover distributions of ultimate tensile strength in aluminium alloy castings, the cleavage fracture stress in notched bars of ferritic weld-metal and fracture toughness values in ′quasihomogeneous′ quenched-and-tempered steels. Visual inspection of distributions are used to assess changes produced by heat treatment or processing variables. Attention is paid to the fracture toughness distributions obtained for ′heterogeneous′ materials and to the extrapolation of fracture toughness values to very low failure probabilities.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125942177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of strong chemical short-range order in ternary liquid alloys on dynamic liquid-crystal interface energy; consequence for crystalline nucleation","authors":"P. Desré, N. Eustathopoulos","doi":"10.1080/01418610208239628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208239628","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the discovery of bulk metal glasses obtainable by moderate quenching rates from the liquid state, more attention has been given to nucleation phenomena in multicomponent liquid alloys. Among the parameters controlling the frequency of nucleation in the highly supercooled range of the melt, the liquid-crystal interface energy is known to be particularly significant. Almost no experimental data on these energies are available when bulk glass-forming liquid alloys are involved. This work is focused on the study of the effect of liquid-crystal partitioning and of chemical short-range order (CSRO) in the liquid alloy on the dynamic liquid-crystal interface energy. Application to ternary liquid glass formers Zr-Cu-Pd is presented. The broken-bonds method is applied to evaluate the excess interface energy between binary and ternary liquid-crystal systems. The Warren-Cowley order parameters, used to quantify CSRO in the liquid alloy, are evaluated on the basis of the Guggenheim quasichemical model. A specific ternary effect on the dynamic liquid-crystal interface energy is demonstrated; its consequence for crystalline nucleation is discussed.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130383671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuqi Guo, N. Hirosaki, T. Nishimura, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, M. Mitomo
{"title":"Oxidation behaviour and strength degradation of a Yb2O3−SiO2−doped hot-pressed silicon nitride between 1200 and 1500°C","authors":"Shuqi Guo, N. Hirosaki, T. Nishimura, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, M. Mitomo","doi":"10.1080/01418610208239632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208239632","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The oxidation behaviour and strength degradation of a Yb2O3−SiO2−doped hot-pressed silicon nitride ceramic were investigated in air for up to 100 h at temperatures between 1200 and 1500°C. The parabolic weight gain versus oxidation time was measured. The oxidation products consisted of Yb2Si2O7 and SiO2 (α-cristobalite). The apparent oxidation activation energy Q was determined to be approximately 285kJ mol−1. The high oxidation resistance observed was attributed to the raised refractoriness of the grain-boundary phase and the minimization of the amorphous phase by extensive devitrification during the sintering process. After oxidation, it was found that the room-temperature flexural strength of the material degraded and this degradation occurred during the early stage of oxidation. The decrease in the flexural strength was associated with the formation and coarsening of defects at and/or near the interface between the oxide layer and the Si3N4 bulk.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131045788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Higashida, N. Narita, M. Tanaka, T. Morikawa, Y. Miura, R. Onodera
{"title":"Crack tip dislocations in silicon characterized by high-voltage electron microscopy","authors":"K. Higashida, N. Narita, M. Tanaka, T. Morikawa, Y. Miura, R. Onodera","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240439","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The nature of crack tip dislocations and their multiplication processes in silicon crystals have been examined by using high-voltage electron microscopy. Cracks were introduced by the Vickers indentation method at room temperature, and the specimen indented was annealed at high temperatures to induce dislocation generation around the crack tip under the presence of residual stress due to the indentation. In the specimens annealed, fine slip bands with the step heights of around 1 nm were formed along the {111} slip planes near the crack tip. The crack tip dislocations observed were characterized by matching their images to those simulated, and it was found that two different slip systems were activated even in the early stage of dislocation emission. With the increase in the number of crack tip dislocations, more complicated dislocation configurations such as dislocation tangles were formed around the crack tip, showing the beginning of multiplication of crack tip dislocations which causes effective crack tip shielding.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134541953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanical behaviour and dislocation arrangements of cyclically deformed silicon single crystals","authors":"M. Legros, A. Jacques, A. George","doi":"10.1080/01418610208240440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01418610208240440","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The mechanical behaviour of single-crystal Si tested in fatigue was investigated under plastic strain amplitude control conditions, at a plastic shear strain rate of 3 × 10−4 s−1 in the temperature range 825–900°C, where the lattice frictional forces are still effective, for plastic strain amplitudes ranging from 6 × 10−4 to 5 × 10−3. Cyclic stress-strain curves exhibit two different stages of hardening and pass through a marked maximum before saturation is reached. The saturation stress is decreased when the strain amplitude per cycle is increased. Scanning electron microscopy observations suggest that strain localization takes place near the maximum stress and beyond. Transmission electron microscopy reveals a variety of dislocation arrangements, the most typical of which are, firstly, regularly spaced elongated braids of edge dipoles, secondly, thicker stripes with dense shells and whose cores contain apparently self-organized secondary dislocations and, thirdly, long rows of prismatic loops. Similarities to and differences from dislocation arrangements observed in fatigued fcc metals are briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":114492,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Magazine A","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117093603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}