Effects of grain size, temperature and strain rate on the mechanical properties of polycrystalline graphene–A molecular dynamics study

MQ Chen, SS Quek, ZD Sha, CH Chiu, QX Pei… - Carbon, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigate the mechanical properties of polycrystalline graphene deforming under
uniaxial tension by using molecular dynamics simulations, focusing on the effects of grain …

Emergence of Gamma distributions in granular materials and packing models

T Aste, T Di Matteo - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2008 - APS
We study the distribution of volume fluctuations in experiments and numerical simulations
concerning equal-sized sphere packings prepared with different techniques. We show that …

A molecular dynamics investigation into nanoscale scratching mechanism of polycrystalline silicon carbide

Y Liu, B Li, L Kong - Computational Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, 3D molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate the
nanoscale scratching mechanism of polycrystalline SiC constructed by Voronoi site-rotation …

Molecular dynamics study on grinding mechanism of polycrystalline silicon carbide

M Chen, H Dai - Diamond and Related Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, stress, temperature, dislocation, surface morphology and crystal structure of
polycrystalline silicon carbide under different grinding speeds and grain sizes are studied by …

An invariant distribution in static granular media

T Aste, T Di Matteo, M Saadatfar, TJ Senden… - Europhysics …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We have discovered an invariant distribution for local packing configurations in static
granular media. This distribution holds in experiments for packing fractions covering most of …

Unraveling the influence of grain boundaries on the mechanical properties of polycrystalline carbon nanotubes

AR Alian, SA Meguid, SI Kundalwal - Carbon, 2017 - Elsevier
The ability to produce homogeneous defect-free carbon nanotubes (CNTs) represents a
major challenge in terms of utility and cost. Specifically, the existence of grain boundaries …

On the validity of Avrami formalism in primary crystallization

P Bruna, D Crespo, R González-Cinca… - Journal of applied …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Calorimetric data of primary crystallization is usually interpreted in the framework of the
Kolmogorov [Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 1, 355 (1937)], Johnson and Mehl [Trans. AIME 135 …

In vivo osseointegration of a randomized trabecular titanium structure obtained by an additive manufacturing technique

V Ragone, E Canciani, M Arosio, M Olimpo… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
The additive manufacturing techniques (AM) are able to realize three-dimensional
trabecular structures that mimic the trabecular structure of the bone. An in vivo study in …

Time-evolution of grain size distributions in random nucleation and growth crystallization processes

AV Teran, A Bill, RB Bergmann - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2010 - APS
We study the time dependence of the grain size distribution N (r, t) during crystallization of
ad-dimensional solid. A partial differential equation, including a source term for nuclei and a …

Characterization of maximally random jammed sphere packings: Voronoi correlation functions

MA Klatt, S Torquato - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
We characterize the structure of maximally random jammed (MRJ) sphere packings by
computing the Minkowski functionals (volume, surface area, and integrated mean curvature) …