Molecular dynamic simulation of edge dislocation-void interaction in pure Al and Al-Mg alloy
Bahramyan, M., Taherzadeh Mousavian, RezaORCID: 0000-0002-2274-3636 and Brabazon, DermotORCID: 0000-0003-3214-6381
(2016)
Molecular dynamic simulation of edge dislocation-void interaction in pure Al and Al-Mg alloy.
Materials Science and Engineering: A, 674
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pp. 82-90.
ISSN 0921-5093
In this study, the interaction of edge dislocations with nano-scale voids was investigated for the face centered cubic (FCC) structure of pure aluminum and Al-Mg alloy. The effect of Mg solute atoms on the Peierls stress (required for dislocation motion) at different temperatures, and the critical resolved shear stress (CRSS) for dislocation-void interaction was investigated in this study. In addition, the influences of void diameter(1, 2 and 3 nm), inter-void distance (7.5 and 15 nm) in a void array, and of temperature ( 300◦K) on resolved shear stress were determined. It was found that substitutional Mg atoms was highly effective on improving the mechanical behavior of the Al lattice and on the type of dislocation-void interaction (simultaneous or separate passing of partial dislocations). In addition, it was obtained that no void-induced climbing occurred during the interactions for these systems. Higher void diameter and in particular lower inter-void spacing led to a considerable increase in the CRSS, while the latter changed the type of dislocation-void interaction. Finally, it was shown that Peierls stress was decreased for pure aluminum from 0◦K to 10◦K, while different results were obtained for Al-Mg alloy that were discussed in detail