Frontiers in the simulation of dislocations

N Bertin, RB Sills, W Cai - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Dislocations play a vital role in the mechanical behavior of crystalline materials during
deformation. To capture dislocation phenomena across all relevant scales, a multiscale …

Roadmap on multiscale materials modeling

E Van Der Giessen, PA Schultz, N Bertin… - … and Simulation in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Modeling and simulation is transforming modern materials science, becoming an important
tool for the discovery of new materials and material phenomena, for gaining insight into the …

Enhanced radiation tolerance of the Ni-Co-Cr-Fe high-entropy alloy as revealed from primary damage

Y Lin, T Yang, L Lang, C Shan, H Deng, W Hu, F Gao - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have received much attention for the development of nuclear
materials because of their excellent irradiation tolerance. In the present study, the …

Analyses of dislocation effects on plastic deformation

S Mohamadnejad, A Basti, R Ansari - Multiscale Science and Engineering, 2020 - Springer
This paper reviews the dislocation based models that have been used until now to consider
dislocation effects on the plastic deformation in the crystalline material. We separate two …

The role of slow screw dislocations in controlling fast strain avalanche dynamics in body-centered cubic metals

Y Cui, G Po, P Srivastava, K Jiang, V Gupta… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Plasticity in body centered cubic (BCC) crystals is shown to be controlled by slow screw
dislocation motion, owing to the thermally-activated process of kink pair nucleation and …

Dislocation density-based plasticity model from massive discrete dislocation dynamics database

S Akhondzadeh, RB Sills, N Bertin, W Cai - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a dislocation density-based strain hardening model for single crystal copper
through a systematic coarse-graining analysis of more than 200 discrete dislocation …

Nanoscale imaging of the full strain tensor of specific dislocations extracted from a bulk sample

F Hofmann, NW Phillips, S Das, P Karamched… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Lattice defects play a key role in determining the properties of crystalline materials. Probing
the three-dimensional (3D) lattice strains that govern their interactions remains a challenge …

Cyclic plasticity and thermomechanical alleviation in titanium alloys

Y Xu, K Fox, D Rugg, FPE Dunne - International Journal of Plasticity, 2020 - Elsevier
Cyclic behaviour of titanium alloy IMI834 has been investigated with a new thermo-
mechanically coupled discrete dislocation plasticity formulation, integrated with …

Implementation of annihilation and junction reactions in vector density-based continuum dislocation dynamics

P Lin, A El-Azab - Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In a continuum dislocation dynamics (CDD) formulation by Xia and El-Azab (2015 Modelling
Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 23 055009), dislocations are represented by a set of vector density …

[HTML][HTML] Deformation assisted nucleation of continuous nanoprecipitates in Mg–Al alloys

SE Prameela, P Yi, B Medeiros, V Liu, LJ Kecskes… - Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional aging of magnesium alloys results in a low number density of laths providing
poor precipitate strengthening. We demonstrate that deformation driven precipitation (DDP) …