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 …

Local microstructure and micromechanical stress evolution during deformation twinning in hexagonal polycrystals

MA Kumar, IJ Beyerlein - Journal of Materials Research, 2020 - cambridge.org
Deformation twinning is a prevalent plastic deformation mode in hexagonal close-packed
(HCP) materials, such as magnesium, titanium, and zirconium, and their alloys …

Orientation-dependent irradiation hardening in pure Zr studied by nanoindentation, electron microscopies, and crystal plasticity finite element modeling

Q Wang, C Cochrane, T Skippon, Z Wang… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Orientation-dependent irradiation hardening phenomena in pure Zr have been studied, and
the corresponding mechanisms investigated based on the combined use of SEM, TEM, and …

A phase field model for the growth and characteristic thickness of deformation-induced twins

N Grilli, ACF Cocks, E Tarleton - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Deformation-induced twinning is an important mechanism in metals with a limited number of
slip deformation modes. The mechanisms for twin nucleation and growth are not completely …

Dislocation↔ twin transmutations during interaction between prismatic slip and {101 1} twin in magnesium

P Chen, J Ombogo, B Li - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Very unusual and interesting interaction between matrix prismatic dislocations and {10 1¯ 1}
twin boundaries (TBs) in Magnesium (Mg) was observed in atomistic simulations. When the …

Dislocation dynamics in polycrystalline materials

J Cho, JC Crone, A Arsenlis… - Modelling and Simulation …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
An extension of the dislocation dynamics method to polycrystalline materials is presented
with emphasis on handling interactions between dislocations and grain boundaries. The key …

Plastic anisotropy of multi-pass caliber-rolled Mg alloy with split texture distribution

BJ Kwak, SH Park, YH Moon, JH Lee, T Lee - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-pass caliber-rolled Mg alloys possess a unique basal texture with split basal poles that
are in contrast to alloys subjected to other plastic deformation processes. The intrinsic nature …

< c+ a> dislocations in {101¯ 2} twins in Mg: A kinematic and energetic requirement

F Wang, Y Gu, RJ McCabe, L Capolungo, JA El-Awady… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Consideration of published TEM and molecular dynamics studies of interactions between
matrix dislocations and {10 1¯ 2} twin boundaries (TB) in hexagonal close packed metals …

On plastic anisotropy and deformation history-driven anelasticity of an extruded magnesium alloy

H Wang, SY Lee, H Wang, W Woo, EW Huang, J Jain… - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The plastic anisotropy and unloading anelasticity of an extruded Mg-9 wt.% Al alloy (with two
annealed textures) were investigated using in-situ neutron diffraction measurement and …

Advances in discrete dislocation dynamics simulations

R LeSar, L Capolungo - … of Materials Modeling: Methods: Theory and …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past few decades, discrete dislocation dynamics, a modeling framework allowing
for the simulation of the collective motion and interactions of dislocations in crystalline …