Strain rate dependency of dislocation plasticity

H Fan, Q Wang, JA El-Awady, D Raabe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Dislocation glide is a general deformation mode, governing the strength of metals. Via
discrete dislocation dynamics and molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the strain …

Annealing‐induced hardening in ultrafine‐grained and nanocrystalline materials

J Gubicza - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Annealing of deformed metals is considered as a process necessarily leading to softening
due to the annihilation of lattice defects. However, in ultrafine‐grained (UFG) and …

Crystal orientation effect on fretting fatigue induced geometrically necessary dislocation distribution in Ni-based single-crystal superalloys

QN Han, SS Rui, W Qiu, X Ma, Y Su, H Cui, H Zhang… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
The effect of crystal orientation on fretting fatigue induced crack initiation and dislocation
distribution is studied by in-situ SEM observation and electron back-scattered diffraction …

Temperature dependent deformation localization in irradiated tungsten

Z Li, Z Liu, Z Zhuang, Y Cui - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
Tungsten is considered as the plasma-facing material in the nuclear fusion device, which
has to withstand coupled irradiation, mechanical and thermal conditions. To guarantee the …

A coupled dislocation dynamics-continuum barrier field model with application to irradiated materials

Y Cui, G Po, NM Ghoniem - International Journal of Plasticity, 2018 - Elsevier
A new computational methodology for 3-dimensional (3D) Discrete Dislocation Dynamics
(DDD) in barrier-strengthened materials is developed. We couple the discrete 3D DDD …

Origin of double-peak precipitation hardening in metallic alloys

H Fan, AHW Ngan, K Gan, JA El-Awady - International Journal of Plasticity, 2018 - Elsevier
Whereas conventional precipitation hardening is well-known to feature a single hardness
peak, recently, double-peak precipitation hardening was observed, where the first peak …

High-performance co-continuous Al-Ce-Mg alloy with in-situ nano-network structure fabricated by laser powder bed fusion

H Lv, P Peng, T Feng, H Gao, J Ju, B Wang, J Wang… - Additive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract A novel Al-Ce-Mg alloy with an in-situ nano-network structure and improved tensile
properties was fabricated using laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). The microstructure of the …

A concurrent irradiation-mechanics multiscale coupling model

C Ji, Y Cui, Y Li, N Ghoniem - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The vast majority of our current knowledge regarding the basic mechanisms controlling
irradiation effect on mechanical properties is based almost entirely on the results of post …

An efficient 2D discrete dislocation Dynamics-XFEM coupling framework and its application to polycrystal plasticity

M Huang, S Huang, S Liang, Y Zhu, Z Li - International Journal of Plasticity, 2020 - Elsevier
A new efficient framework coupling the two dimensional (2D) discrete dislocation dynamics
(DDD) and the extended finite element method (XFEM) is developed for modeling the …

[HTML][HTML] A new method to model dislocation self-climb dominated by core diffusion

F Liu, ACF Cocks, E Tarleton - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The mobility of atoms in dislocation core regions is many orders of magnitude faster than in
the surrounding lattice. This rapid atomic transport along dislocation cores plays a significant …