Strong crack blunting by shear-coupled migration of grain boundaries in nanocrystalline materials

2014 ◽  
Vol 84-85 ◽  
pp. 51-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianjun Li ◽  
Shaohua Chen ◽  
Xiaolei Wu ◽  
A.K. Soh
2006 ◽  
Vol 503-504 ◽  
pp. 125-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuntian T. Zhu

Deformation twins have been oberved in nanocrystalline (NC) Al synthsized by cryogenic ball-milling and in NC Cu processed by high-pressure torsion under room temperature and at a very low strain rate. They were found formed by partial dislocations emitted from grain boundaries. This paper first reviews experimental evidences on deformation twinning and partial dislocation emissions from grain boundaries, and then discusses recent analytical models on the nucleation and growth of deformation twins. These models are compared with experimental results to establish their validity and limitations.


2006 ◽  
Vol 976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Carlton ◽  
P. J. Ferreira

AbstractAn inverse Hall-Petch effect has been observed for nanocrystalline materials by a large number of researchers. This result implies that nanocrystalline materials get softer as grain size is reduced below a critical value. Postulated explanations for this behavior include dislocation based mechanisms and diffusion based mechanisms. In this paper, we report an explanation for the inverse Hall-Petch effect based on the statistical absorption of dislocations by grain boundaries, showing that the yield strength is both dependent on strain rate and temperature, and that it deviates from the Hall-Petch relationship at a critical grain size.


2011 ◽  
Vol 309-310 ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksey Lipnitskii ◽  
I.V. Nelasov ◽  
Yurii Kolobov

Suggested methods describe the process of self-diffusion along grain boundaries and triple junctions in polycrystals without using geometric models of the grain boundaries structure. The calculation method introduced diffusion characteristics along grain boundaries derived from the results of molecular dynamic simulations of nanocrystalline materials. The diffusion experiments were imposed to establish relationship between introduced diffusion characteristics and the diffusion parameters along grain boundaries and triple junctions of the Fisher’s grain boundary diffusion model. By the example of copper for the first time the characteristics of self-diffusion along grain boundaries of nanocrystalline materials and coarse grained analog defined in the same temperature range was compared for the first time. It was found that values of the self-diffusion characteristics along grain boundaries in high purity nanocrystalline and polycrystalline copper are equal at the same temperatures.


2014 ◽  
Vol 592 ◽  
pp. 128-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Wang ◽  
Jianqiu Zhou ◽  
Shu Zhang ◽  
Hongxi Liu ◽  
Shuhong Dong

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