TY - JOUR
T1 - Atomic mixing in metals under shear deformation
AU - Vo, Nhon Q.
AU - Zhou, Jian
AU - Ashkenazy, Yinon
AU - Schwen, Daniel
AU - Averback, Robert S.
AU - Bellon, Pascal
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under Award No. 2008LANL1026, and in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants DMR 09-06703 and 10-05813.
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - The fundamental processes of shear-induced chemical mixing in heterogeneous Cu-based alloy systems have been studied by molecular dynamics computer simulations. These simulations reveal that two very disparate mechanisms operate depending on whether or not the two phases are coherent. For the coherent systems, mixing occurs as dislocations transfer across phase boundaries. The mixing in these systems is "superdiffusive," and for spherical precipitates, the rate of mixing increases quadratically with precipitate radius. In systems that have incoherent phases, the mixing occurs by a local shuffling of atoms at the interface, and for them, the mixing is diffusive, with the mixing rates of spherical precipitates scaling linearly with particle radius. The morphologies of the interfaces for the two situations are also different. Coherent precipitates form rough interfaces that are relatively sharp, whereas the interfaces of incoherent precipitates are smooth but diffuse. These simulations also show that for incoherent precipitates, shear-induced mixing can be very different at different crystallographic interfacial planes as well as for different strain directions.
AB - The fundamental processes of shear-induced chemical mixing in heterogeneous Cu-based alloy systems have been studied by molecular dynamics computer simulations. These simulations reveal that two very disparate mechanisms operate depending on whether or not the two phases are coherent. For the coherent systems, mixing occurs as dislocations transfer across phase boundaries. The mixing in these systems is "superdiffusive," and for spherical precipitates, the rate of mixing increases quadratically with precipitate radius. In systems that have incoherent phases, the mixing occurs by a local shuffling of atoms at the interface, and for them, the mixing is diffusive, with the mixing rates of spherical precipitates scaling linearly with particle radius. The morphologies of the interfaces for the two situations are also different. Coherent precipitates form rough interfaces that are relatively sharp, whereas the interfaces of incoherent precipitates are smooth but diffuse. These simulations also show that for incoherent precipitates, shear-induced mixing can be very different at different crystallographic interfacial planes as well as for different strain directions.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11837-012-0542-7
DO - 10.1007/s11837-012-0542-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878491812
SN - 1047-4838
VL - 65
SP - 382
EP - 389
JO - JOM
JF - JOM
IS - 3
ER -