Effect of cooperative nanograin boundary sliding and migration on dislocation emission from a blunt nanocrack tip in nanocrystalline materials |
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Authors: | Yingxin Zhao Youwen Liu |
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Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P.R. China;2. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P.R. China |
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Abstract: | Theoretical model is suggested that describes the effects of the cooperative nanograin boundary sliding and stress-driven nanograin boundary migration (CNGBSM) process on the lattice dislocation emission from an elliptically blunt nanocrack tip in deformed nanocrystalline materials. Within the model, CNGBSM deformation near the tip of growing nanocrack carries plastic flow, produces two dipoles of disclination defects and creates high local stresses in nanocrystalline materials. By using the complex variable method, the complex form expression of dislocation force is derived, and critical stress intensity factors for the first lattice dislocation emission are obtained under mode I and mode II loading conditions, respectively. The combined effects of the geometric features and strengths of CNGBSM deformation, nanocrack blunting and length on critical SIFs for dislocation emission depend upon nanograin size and material parameters in a typical situation where nanocrack blunting and growth processes are controlled by dislocation emission from nanocrack tips. It is theoretically shown that the cooperative CNGBSM deformation and nanocrack blunting have great influence on dislocation emission from blunt nanocrack tip. |
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Keywords: | nanocrystalline materials the cooperative nanograin boundary sliding and stress-driven migration nanocrack blunting dislocation emission critical stress intensity factors |
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