This title appears in the Scientific Report :
2018
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http://hdl.handle.net/2128/18570 in citations.
Cross-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Single Crystal Plasticity
Cross-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Single Crystal Plasticity
Strength and plasticity properties of a metal are typically defined by dislocations – line defects in the crystal lattice whose motion results in atomic slippage along lattice planes. It is of considerable fundamental and practical interest to identify and quantify conditions at which dislocation-me...
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Personal Name(s): | Stukowski, A. |
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Zepeda-Ruiz, L. A. / Oppelstrup, T. / Bulatov, V. V. | |
Contributing Institute: |
John von Neumann - Institut für Computing; NIC |
Published in: |
NIC Symposium 2018 |
Imprint: |
Jülich
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Zentralbibliothek
2018
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Physical Description: |
255 - 262 |
Conference: | NIC Symposium 2018, Jülich (Germany), 2018-02-22 - 2018-02-23 |
Document Type: |
Contribution to a book Contribution to a conference proceedings |
Research Program: |
Addenda |
Series Title: |
NIC Series
49 |
Link: |
OpenAccess OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Strength and plasticity properties of a metal are typically defined by dislocations – line defects in the crystal lattice whose motion results in atomic slippage along lattice planes. It is of considerable fundamental and practical interest to identify and quantify conditions at which dislocation-mediated plasticity reaches its limits and to understand what happens to the metal beyond any such limit. Resolving every “jiggle and wiggle” of atomic motion, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are faithful to every possible mechanism of material response making them uniquely suited for probing conditions when dislocation motion begins to be superseded by some other mechanism of crystal plasticity. Here, we present the first fully dynamic atomistic simulations of bulk single crystal plasticity in tantalum metal predicting that, on reaching certain limiting conditions of straining, dislocations alone can no longer relieve mechanical loads and another mechanism, deformation twinning, takes over as the dominant mode of dynamic response. Below this limit, however, the metal attains a path-independent steady state of plastic flow in which both the flow stress and the dislocation density remain constant indefinitely. |