Spall strength dependence on grain size and strain rate in tantalum

TP Remington, EN Hahn, S Zhao, R Flanagan… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of grain size on the dynamic failure of tantalum during laser-shock
compression and release and identify a significant effect of grain size on spall strength …

Material hardness at strain rates beyond 106 s− 1 via high velocity microparticle impact indentation

M Hassani, D Veysset, KA Nelson, CA Schuh - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite advances in mechanical testing at small scales and testing at high strain rates,
studies of mechanical behavior of materials remain largely qualitative in the regimes where …

Orientation dependent spall strength of tantalum single crystals

EN Hahn, SJ Fensin, TC Germann, GT Gray III - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
It is generally recognized that single crystals exhibit orientation-dependent elastic and
plastic responses. However, it is less known how the dynamic tensile, or spall, strength …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and predicting damage and failure at grain boundaries in BCC Ta

J Chen, EN Hahn, AM Dongare… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding the effect of grain boundaries (GBs) on the deformation and spall behavior is
critical to designing materials with tailored failure responses under dynamic loading. This …

Microstructure and twinning behavior of bcc tantalum under dynamic plastic deformation

S Zhou, S Liu, Y Ding, Y Liu, C Deng, Z Zhang… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, dynamic plastic deformation (DPD) of tantalum (Ta) was achieved by split
Hopkinson pressure bar and a variety of DPD conditions were set to systematically …

Intragranular void formation in shock-spalled tantalum: Mechanisms and governing factors

M Cheng, C Li, MX Tang, L Lu, Z Li, SN Luo - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Intragranular void formation in polycrystalline tantalum is investigated with plate impact
experiments and molecular dynamics simulations, as regards its mechanisms and …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic-scale observation of nucleation-and growth-controlled deformation twinning in body-centered cubic nanocrystals

L Zhong, Y Zhang, X Wang, T Zhu, SX Mao - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Twinning is an essential mode of plastic deformation for achieving superior strength and
ductility in metallic nanostructures. It has been generally believed that twinning-induced …

Symmetric tilt boundaries in body-centered cubic tantalum

EN Hahn, SJ Fensin, TC Germann, MA Meyers - Scripta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Grain boundaries can play a significant role in the mechanical response of materials.
Atomistic simulations are used to investigate 79 coincidence site lattice grain boundary …

Associating damage nucleation and distribution with grain boundary characteristics in Ta

J Chen, SJ Fensin - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of grain boundary (GB) characteristics (as represented by misorientation angle)
on its dynamic response is investigated by sampling a large set of 185 GBs in Ta bi-crystals …

Twinning mechanism asymmetry in body-centered cubic tantalum under [001] uniaxial compression/tension

G Wei, H Xie, F Yin, G Lu - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
Plasticity of body-centered cubic tantalum with preexisting dislocations is investigated under
[001] uniaxial compression/tension loading using a molecular dynamic simulation method …