Nano-Indentation Hardness and Strain Hardening of Silicon,Sodium Chloride and Tungsten Crystals

Background

A previous review of micro- and nano-indentation hardness tests and their analyses gave emphasis to obtaining measurements of continuous nano-indentation load, P, versus, depth, h, recordings that monitor the full elastic–plastic deformation behavior of a localized crystal volume [1].

Objective

Attention is given to determining the complete, indentation-based, elastic–plastic deformation properties of the local volume, including the initial crystal elastic deformation behavior and, especially to evaluation of post pop-in plastic strain hardening.

Method

Stress–strain calculations are presented for an initial Hertzian elastic loading and follow-on crystal micro- and nano-scale plastic deformation responses [2].

Results

Applied load, P, dependencies on contact diameters, d_i, of silicon crystals are compiled on the basis of elastic, plastic and cracking predictions, giving indication at the lowest P values of an indentation size effect (ISE) for the crystal hardness. Elastic–plastic stress–strain curves are presented for sodium chloride and tungsten crystals. The hardness and strain hardening calculations also demonstrate an influence of the ISE.

Conclusions

The exceptional plastic strain hardening behaviors scale dimensionally with corresponding dislocation interactions and sessile reactions within the very localized plastic indentation zones. There is usefulness in determining elastic modulus values from the initial loading record. Micro- and nano-scale dislocation interactions/reactions account for the high stress and strain hardening levels as well as the occurrence of an ISE.

     

Cotransport of Suspended Colloids and Nanoparticles in Porous Media

The objective of this study is to develop a model for cotransport of colloids and nanoparticles (NPs) in porous media under two particle capture mechanisms. The particle capture rate is proportional to the capture probability, which is a function of retained concentration, called the filtration function. Laboratory bench-scale experiments of individual transport of NPs and colloidal-size kaolinite clay particles through packed columns produced breakthrough curves (BTCs) that monotonically increased with time and stabilised at some value lower than the injected concentration. We discuss the filtration function that corresponds to BTCs stabilising at the concentration lower than the injected value. This so-called binary filtration function incorporates two particle capture mechanisms. The analytical transport model with a binary filtration function was capable to fit successfully BTCs obtained from individual transport experiments using kaolinite and NPs conducted by Chrysikopoulos et al. (Transp Porous Med 119(1):181–204, 2017). Assuming that the electrostatic particle–solid matrix interaction and the fraction of the solid matrix surface area occupied by a single attached particle (kaolinite or NP) are the same for individual transport of either kaolinite particles or NPs and for simultaneous cotransport of kaolinite particles and NPs, the proposed binary filtration function was extended for the cotransport case. Although the breakthrough data from cotransport experiments with kaolinite particles and NPs have six degrees of freedom, the developed cotransport model successfully matches the BTCs by tuning two constants only. This validates the developed model for cotransport of two colloidal populations with different attachments and straining rates.

     

Lump,soliton, and interaction solutions to a generalized two-mode higher-order nonlinear evolution equation in plasma physics

This article investigates a nonlinear fifth-order partial differential equation (PDE) in two-mode waves. The equation generalizes two-mode Sawada-Kotera (tmSK), two-mode Lax (tmLax), and two-mode Caudrey–Dodd–Gibbon (tmCDG) equations. In 2017, Wazwaz [1] presented three two-mode fifth-order evolutions equations as tmSK, tmLax, and tmCDG equations for the integrable two-mode KdV equation and established solitons up to three-soliton solutions. In light of the research above, we examine a generalized two-mode evolution equation using a logarithmic transformation concerning the equation’s dispersion. It utilizes the simplified technique of the Hirota method to obtain the multiple solitons as a single soliton, two solitons, and three solitons with their interactions. Also, we construct one-lump solutions and their interaction with a soliton and depict the dynamical structures of the obtained solutions for solitons, lump, and their interactions. We show the 3D graphics with their contour plots for the obtained solutions by taking suitable values of the parameters presented in the solutions. These equations simultaneously study the propagation of two-mode waves in the identical direction with different phase velocities, dispersion parameters, and nonlinearity. These equations have applications in several real-life examples, such as gravity-affected waves or gravity-capillary waves, waves in shallow water, propagating waves in fast-mode and the slow-mode with their phase velocity in a strong and weak magnetic field, known as magneto-sound propagation in plasmas.