Mechanical properties depending on grain sizes of face-centered-cubic nanocrystalline metals using molecular dynamics simulation (investigation of stacking fault energy's influence)

JSME International Journal, Series A: Solid Mechanics and Material Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 83-91

  Shimokawa, Tomotsugu ^a,b   Nakatani, Akihiro ^b   Kitagawa, Hiroshi ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational mechanics; Grain boundary migration; Grain boundary sliding; Inverse hall petch relation; Molecular dynamics; Nanocrystalline materials; Partial dislocation; Plasticity; Stacking fault energy; Tensile properties

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; STACKING FAULTS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; SWITCHING;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY (EMT); EMBEDDED ATOM METHOD (EAM); NANO-POLYCRYSTALLINE (NPC); STACKING FAULTS ENERGY (SFE);

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

METAL;

EID: 3042594889     PISSN: 13447912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmea.47.83     Document Type: Article

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