The weak point of the generalized self-consistent method (GSCM) isthat its solution for the effective shear moduli involves determiningthe complicated displacement and strain fields in con- stituents.Furthermore, the ...The weak point of the generalized self-consistent method (GSCM) isthat its solution for the effective shear moduli involves determiningthe complicated displacement and strain fields in con- stituents.Furthermore, the effective moduli estimated by GSCM cannot beexpressed in an explicit form. Instead of following the procedure ofGSCM, in this paper a generalized self-consistent Mori- Tanaka method(GSCMTM) is developed by means of Hill's interface condition and theassumption that the strain in the inclusion is uniform. A comparisonwith the existing theoretical and experimental results shows that thepresent GSCMTM is sufficiently accurate to predict the effectivemoduli of the coated inclusion-based composite materials.展开更多
Introducing heterogeneities into the structure is an effective way to enhance the plasticity in metallic glasses (MGs). As natural heterogeneity, the original randomly distributed free volume in MGs has been found to ...Introducing heterogeneities into the structure is an effective way to enhance the plasticity in metallic glasses (MGs). As natural heterogeneity, the original randomly distributed free volume in MGs has been found to be in favor of plasticity. However, the exact correlation between the free volume distribution and mechanical response is still unclear. In this paper, we investigate the shear banding in MGs with different structural disorders, characterized by both the free volume concentration (FVC) and the free volume dispersion (FVD). It is found that, either high FVC or wide FVD leads to low activation stress of shear band; wide FVD promotes the multiplication of shear bands but high FVC restricts it. It reveals that the yield strength in MGs is dependent on the amount of free volume while the plasticity mainly relies on the distribution. An optimum combination of the two aspects probably helps to design a MG of both good plasticity and high strength.展开更多
This paper reports a comparative study of shear banding in BMGs resulting from thermal softening and free volume creation. Firstly,the effects of thermal softening and free volume creation on shear instability are dis...This paper reports a comparative study of shear banding in BMGs resulting from thermal softening and free volume creation. Firstly,the effects of thermal softening and free volume creation on shear instability are discussed. It is known that ther-mal softening governs thermal shear banding,hence it is essentially energy related. However,compound free volume creation is the key factor to the other instability,though void-induced softening seems to be the counterpart of thermal softening. So,the driving force for shear instability owing to free volume creation is very dif-ferent from the thermally assisted one. In particular,long wave perturbations are always unstable owing to compound free volume creation. Therefore,the shear instability resulting from coupled compound free volume creation and thermal softening may start more like that due to free volume creation. Also,the compound free volume creation implies a specific and intrinsic characteristic growth time of shear instability. Finally,the mature shear band width is governed by the corre-sponding diffusions (thermal or void diffusion) within the band. As a rough guide,the dimensionless numbers: Thermal softening related number B,Deborah number (denoting the relation of instability growth rate owing to compound free volume and loading time) and Lewis number (denoting the competition of different diffusions) show us their relative importance of thermal softening and free volume creation in shear banding. All these results are of particular significance in understanding the mechanism of shear banding in bulk metallic glasses (BMGs).展开更多
Pile-up around indenter is usually observed during instrumented indentation tests on bulk metallic glass. Neglecting the pile-up effect may lead to errors in evaluating hardness,Young’s modulus,stress-strain response...Pile-up around indenter is usually observed during instrumented indentation tests on bulk metallic glass. Neglecting the pile-up effect may lead to errors in evaluating hardness,Young’s modulus,stress-strain response,etc. Finite element analysis was employed to implement numerical simulation of spherical indentation tests on bulk metallic glass. A new model was proposed to describe the pile-up effect. By using this new model,the contact radius and hardness of Zr41.2Ti13.8Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 bulk metallic glass were obtained under several different indenter loads with pile-up,and the results agree well with the data generated by numerical simulation.展开更多
Spallation, rupture under impulsive tensile loading, is a dynamic failure process involving the collective evolution and accumulation of enormous microdamage in solids. In contrast to traditional alloys, the spallatio...Spallation, rupture under impulsive tensile loading, is a dynamic failure process involving the collective evolution and accumulation of enormous microdamage in solids. In contrast to traditional alloys, the spallation mechanism in medium entropy alloys, the recently emerged multiprinciple and chemically disordered alloys, is poorly understood. Here we conduct molecular dynamics simulations and first principle calculations to investigate the effects of impact velocities and the local chemical order on spallation microvoid nucleation in a CrCoNi medium entropy alloy under shock wave loading. As the impact velocity increases, the microvoid nucleation site exhibits a transition from the grain boundaries to the grains to release redundant imposed energy. During the intragranular nucleation process, microvoids nucleate in the poor-Cr region with a large local nonaffine deformation, which is attributed to the weak metallic bonds in this position with sparse free electrons. For intergranular nucleation, a Franke-like dislocation source forms through the dislocation reaction, leading to enormous dislocations piling up in a narrow twin stripe, which markedly increases the local stored energy and promotes microvoid nucleation. These results shed light on the mechanism of spallation in chemically complexed medium entropy alloys.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaChina Postdoctoral Science Foundation
文摘The weak point of the generalized self-consistent method (GSCM) isthat its solution for the effective shear moduli involves determiningthe complicated displacement and strain fields in con- stituents.Furthermore, the effective moduli estimated by GSCM cannot beexpressed in an explicit form. Instead of following the procedure ofGSCM, in this paper a generalized self-consistent Mori- Tanaka method(GSCMTM) is developed by means of Hill's interface condition and theassumption that the strain in the inclusion is uniform. A comparisonwith the existing theoretical and experimental results shows that thepresent GSCMTM is sufficiently accurate to predict the effectivemoduli of the coated inclusion-based composite materials.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 10725211, 11002144, 11021262)the National Natural Science Foundation of China-NSAF (Grant No. 10976100)+1 种基金the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2009CB724401)the Key Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KJCX2-YW-M04)
文摘Introducing heterogeneities into the structure is an effective way to enhance the plasticity in metallic glasses (MGs). As natural heterogeneity, the original randomly distributed free volume in MGs has been found to be in favor of plasticity. However, the exact correlation between the free volume distribution and mechanical response is still unclear. In this paper, we investigate the shear banding in MGs with different structural disorders, characterized by both the free volume concentration (FVC) and the free volume dispersion (FVD). It is found that, either high FVC or wide FVD leads to low activation stress of shear band; wide FVD promotes the multiplication of shear bands but high FVC restricts it. It reveals that the yield strength in MGs is dependent on the amount of free volume while the plasticity mainly relies on the distribution. An optimum combination of the two aspects probably helps to design a MG of both good plasticity and high strength.
基金the Chinese Academy of Sciences under the project "Multi-Scale Complex System" (Grant No KJCX-SW-L08)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10725211 and 10721202)the Doctorial Start-up Fund of Hunan University of Science and Technology (Grant No E50840)
文摘This paper reports a comparative study of shear banding in BMGs resulting from thermal softening and free volume creation. Firstly,the effects of thermal softening and free volume creation on shear instability are discussed. It is known that ther-mal softening governs thermal shear banding,hence it is essentially energy related. However,compound free volume creation is the key factor to the other instability,though void-induced softening seems to be the counterpart of thermal softening. So,the driving force for shear instability owing to free volume creation is very dif-ferent from the thermally assisted one. In particular,long wave perturbations are always unstable owing to compound free volume creation. Therefore,the shear instability resulting from coupled compound free volume creation and thermal softening may start more like that due to free volume creation. Also,the compound free volume creation implies a specific and intrinsic characteristic growth time of shear instability. Finally,the mature shear band width is governed by the corre-sponding diffusions (thermal or void diffusion) within the band. As a rough guide,the dimensionless numbers: Thermal softening related number B,Deborah number (denoting the relation of instability growth rate owing to compound free volume and loading time) and Lewis number (denoting the competition of different diffusions) show us their relative importance of thermal softening and free volume creation in shear banding. All these results are of particular significance in understanding the mechanism of shear banding in bulk metallic glasses (BMGs).
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10725211, 10721202 and 10472119) the Key Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. KJCX2-YW-M04 and KJCX-SW-L08)
文摘Pile-up around indenter is usually observed during instrumented indentation tests on bulk metallic glass. Neglecting the pile-up effect may lead to errors in evaluating hardness,Young’s modulus,stress-strain response,etc. Finite element analysis was employed to implement numerical simulation of spherical indentation tests on bulk metallic glass. A new model was proposed to describe the pile-up effect. By using this new model,the contact radius and hardness of Zr41.2Ti13.8Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 bulk metallic glass were obtained under several different indenter loads with pile-up,and the results agree well with the data generated by numerical simulation.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0702003)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 11790292, 11972346 and 11672316)+3 种基金the NSFC Basic Science Center Program for “Multiscale Problems in Nonlinear Mechanics” (Grant No. 11988102)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDB22040302 and XDB22040303)the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDJSSWJSC011)the Science Challenge Project (Grant No. TZ2018001)。
文摘Spallation, rupture under impulsive tensile loading, is a dynamic failure process involving the collective evolution and accumulation of enormous microdamage in solids. In contrast to traditional alloys, the spallation mechanism in medium entropy alloys, the recently emerged multiprinciple and chemically disordered alloys, is poorly understood. Here we conduct molecular dynamics simulations and first principle calculations to investigate the effects of impact velocities and the local chemical order on spallation microvoid nucleation in a CrCoNi medium entropy alloy under shock wave loading. As the impact velocity increases, the microvoid nucleation site exhibits a transition from the grain boundaries to the grains to release redundant imposed energy. During the intragranular nucleation process, microvoids nucleate in the poor-Cr region with a large local nonaffine deformation, which is attributed to the weak metallic bonds in this position with sparse free electrons. For intergranular nucleation, a Franke-like dislocation source forms through the dislocation reaction, leading to enormous dislocations piling up in a narrow twin stripe, which markedly increases the local stored energy and promotes microvoid nucleation. These results shed light on the mechanism of spallation in chemically complexed medium entropy alloys.
