An investigation of the combined size and rate effects on the mechanical responses of FCC metals

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 1180-1195

  Guo, Y ^a   Zhuang, Z ^a   Li, X Y ^a   Chen, Z ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

FCC metals; Multi scale; Rate effect; Size effect

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRAIN RATE; YIELD STRESS;

CRITICAL STRAIN RATE; DISLOCATION NUCLEATION; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC (FCC) METALS; PLASTIC YIELD STRENGTH;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 33750991066     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Bazant Z.P. Scaling of dislocation-based strain-gradient plasticity. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 50 (2002) 435
2. Chen Z., Shen L.M., Gan Y., and Fang H.E. A hyper-surface for the combined loading rate and specimen size effects on the material properties. Int. J. Mutiscale Comput. Eng. 3 (2005) 451
3. Cheung K.S., and Yip S. Atomic-level stress in an inhomogeneous system. J. Appl. Phys. 70 (1991) 5688
4. Cowper, G.R., Symonds, P.S., 1957. Strain hardening and strain rate effects in the impact loading of cantilever beams. Technical Report No. 28 (ONR Contract No. 562), Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI.
5. Daw M.S., and Baskes M.I. Embedded-atom method: derivation and application to impurities, surfaces, and other defects in metals. Phys. Rev. B 29 12 (1984) 6443
6. De Gunzman M.S., Neubauer G., Flinn P., and Nix W.D. Mater. Res. Symp. Proc. 308 (1993) 613
7. Dimiduk D.M., Uchic M.D., and Parthasarathy T.A. Size-affected single-slip behavior of pure nickel microcrystals. Acta Mater. 53 (2005) 4065
8. Edington J.W. The influence of strain rate on the mechanical properties and dislocation substructure in deformed copper single crystals. Philos. Mag. 19 162 (1969) 41
9. Espinosa H.D., and Prorok B.C. Size effects on the mechanical behavior of gold thin films. J. Mater. Sci. 38 (2003) 4125
10. Fleck N.A., Muller G.M., Ashby F.M., and Hutchinson J.W. Strain gradient plasticity: theory and experiment. Acta Metal. 42 2 (1994) 475
11. Freund L.B. J. Appl. Mech. 54 (1987) 533
12. Gane N. Pro. R. Soc. Lond. A 317 (1970) 367
13. Gane N., and Bowden F.P. Microdeformation of solids. J. Appl. Phys. 39 (1968) 1432
14. Gao H., Huang Y., Nix W.D., and Hutchinson J.W. Mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity: I: Theory. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 47 (1999) 1239
15. Gilman J.J. Appl. Micromech. Flow Solids (1953) 185
16. Greer J.R., Oliver W.C., and Nix W.D. Size dependence of mechanical properties of gold at the micron scale in the absence of strain gradients. Acta Mater. 53 (2005) 1821
17. Hirth J.P., and Lothe J. Theory of Dislocations (1982), John Wiley and Sons, New York p. 757
18. Hoagland R.G., and Baskes M.I. An atomistic study of the effects of stress and hydrogen on a dislocation lock in nickel. Scr. Mater. 39 4-5 (1998) 417
19. Holian B.L., and Lomdahl P.S. Plasticity induced by shock waves in nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulations. Science 280 5372 (1998) 2085
20. Hoover W.G. Canonical dynamics: equilibrium phase-space distributions. Phys. Rev. A 31 (1985) 1695
21. Horstemeyer M.F., and Baskes M.I. Atomistic finite deformation simulations: a discussion on length scale effects in relation to mechanical stresses. Trans. ASME 121 (1999) 114
22. Horstemeyer M.F., Baskes M.I., and Plimpton S.J. Length scale and time scale effects on the plastic flow of FCC metals. Acta Mater. 49 (2001) 4363
23. Horstemeyer M.F., Lim J., Liu W.Y., Mosher D.A., Baskes M.I., Prantil V.C., and Plimpton S.J. Torsion/simple shear of single crystal copper. J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 124 (2002) 322
24. Liang W., and Zhou M. Response of copper nanowires in dynamic tensile deformation. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part C: J. Mech. Eng. Sci. 218 6 (2004) 599
25. Lutsko J.F. Stress and elastic constants in anisotropic solids: molecular dynamics techniques. J. Appl. Phys. 64 (1988) 1152
26. Ma Q., and Clarke D.R. Size-dependent hardness of silver single-crystals. J. Mater. Res. 10 (1995) 853
27. Matthews J.W., and Blakeslee A.E. Defects in epitaxial multilayers I. Misfit dislocations. J. Cryst. Growth 27 (1974) 118
28. Matthews J.W., and Blakeslee A.E. Defects in epitaxial multilayers: II. Dislocation pile-ups, threading dislocations, slip lines and cracks. J. Cryst. Growth 29 (1975) 273
29. McElhaney K.W., Vlassak J.J., and Nix W.D. Determination of indenter tip geometry and indentation contact area for depth-sensing indentation experiments. J. Mater. Res. 13 (1998) 1300
30. Michalske T.A., and Houston J.E. Dislocation nucleation at nano-scale mechanical contacts. Acta Mater. 46 2 (1998) 391
31. Mishin Y., Mehl M.J., Papaconstantopoulos D.A., Voter A.F., and Kress J.D. Structural stability and lattice defects in copper: ab initio, tight-binding, and embedded-atom calculations. Phys. Rev. B 63 22 (2001) 224106
32. Nix W.D. Metall. Trans. A 20 (1989) 2217
33. Nose S. A molecular dynamics method for simulations in the canonical ensemble. Mol. Phys. 52 2 (1984) 255
34. Pethica J.B., and Tabor D. Contact of characterised metal surfaces at very low loads: deformation and adhesion. Surf. Sci. 89 (1979) 182
35. Poole W.J., Ashby M.F., and Fleck N.A. Micro-hardness of annealed and work-hardened copper polycrystals. Scr. Metall. Mater. 34 (1996) 559
36. Schiötz J., Vegge T., Di Tolla F.D., et al. Atomic-scale simulations of the mechanical deformation of nanocrystalline metals. Phys. Rev. B 60 (1999) 11971
37. Spearot D.E., Jacob K.I., McDowell D.L., and Plimpton S.J. Effect of deformation path sequence on the behavior of nanoscale copper bicrystal interfaces. J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 127 (2005) 374
38. Stelmashenko N.A., Walls M.G., Brown L.M., and Millman Y.V. Acta Metall. Mater. 41 (1993) 2855
39. Stolken J.S., and Evans A.G. A microbend test method for measuring the plasticity length scale. Acta Mater. 46 (1998) 5109
40. Taylor P., and Dodson B.W. Propagating lattice instabilities in shock-loaded metals. Phys. Rev. B 42 2 (1990) 1200
41. Thomas R.C., Houston J.E., Michalske T.A., and Crooks R.M. Science 259 (1993) 1883
42. Uchic M.D., Dimiduk D.M., Florando J.N., and Nix W.D. Sample dimensions influence strength and crystal plasticity. Science 305 5686 (2004) 986