The role of heterogeneous deformation on damage nucleation at grain boundaries in single phase metals

TR Bieler, P Eisenlohr, F Roters, D Kumar… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
The mechanical response of engineering materials evaluated through continuum fracture
mechanics typically assumes that a crack or void initially exists, but it does not provide …

Atomistic simulations of metallic microstructures

D Farkas - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper reviews recent results in the simulation of the mechanical response of metallic
microstructures at the atomic level. The role of the grain boundary network in deformation …

Grain boundary structure and mobility in high-entropy alloys: A comparative molecular dynamics study on a Σ11 symmetrical tilt grain boundary in face-centered cubic …

D Utt, A Stukowski, K Albe - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
We employ atomistic computer simulations to study the structure and migration behavior of a
Σ11 symmetrical tilt grain boundary in a 4-component model FCC high-entropy alloy …

Discovering the building blocks of atomic systems using machine learning: application to grain boundaries

CW Rosenbrock, ER Homer, G Csányi… - NPJ Computational …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning has proven to be a valuable tool to approximate functions in high-
dimensional spaces. Unfortunately, analysis of these models to extract the relevant physics …

Atomistic modeling of grain boundaries and dislocation processes in metallic polycrystalline materials

DE Spearot, DL McDowell - 2009 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The objective of this review article is to provide a concise discussion of atomistic modeling
efforts aimed at understanding the nanoscale behavior and the role of grain boundaries in …

Atomistic simulation of tensile deformation behavior of∑ 5 tilt grain boundaries in copper bicrystal

L Zhang, C Lu, K Tieu - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Experiments on polycrystalline metallic samples have indicated that Grain boundary (GB)
structure can affect many material properties related to fracture and plasticity. In this study …

Evolution of structure and free volume in symmetric tilt grain boundaries during dislocation nucleation

GJ Tucker, MA Tschopp, DL McDowell - Acta Materialia, 2010 - Elsevier
Grain boundary evolution in copper bicrystals is investigated during uniaxial tension at 10K.
Grain boundary structures are generated using molecular statics employing an embedded …

Atomistic simulations of tension–compression asymmetry in dislocation nucleation for copper grain boundaries

MA Tschopp, GJ Tucker, DL McDowell - Computational Materials Science, 2008 - Elsevier
Atomistic simulations are used to investigate how grain boundary structure influences
dislocation nucleation under uniaxial tension and compression for a specific class of …

Effects of solutes on dislocation nucleation from grain boundaries

V Borovikov, MI Mendelev, AH King - International journal of plasticity, 2017 - Elsevier
When grain sizes are reduced to the nanoscale, grain boundaries (GB) become the
dominant sources of the dislocations that enable plastic deformation. We present the first …

Machine-learning informed representations for grain boundary structures

ER Homer, DM Hensley, CW Rosenbrock… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The atomic structure of grain boundaries plays a defining but poorly understood role in the
properties they exhibit. Due to the complex nature of these structures, machine learning is a …