Concurrent prediction of metallic glasses' global energy and internal structural heterogeneity by interpretable machine learning

C Liu, Y Wang, Y Wang, M Islam, J Hwang, Y Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Predicting glasses' properties from their structures is a formidable challenge because of the
inherently disordered atomic configurations. Here we tackle the problem using a new two …

Modulating grain boundary-mediated plasticity of high-entropy alloys via chemo-mechanical coupling

XT Li, XZ Tang, YF Guo, H Li, Y Fan - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Intrinsic chemical disorder and the subsequent interfacial roughening have posed
formidable challenges in elucidating the grain boundary (GB)-mediated plasticity in high …

Atomistic modeling of surface and grain boundary dislocation nucleation in FCC metals

Y Zhang, K Ding, S Stangebye, D Chen, J Kacher… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Dislocation nucleation plays a critical role in the plastic deformation of crystalline materials.
However, it is challenging to predict the active mode and associated rate of dislocation …

Emergent fractal energy landscape as the origin of stress-accelerated dynamics in amorphous solids

C Liu, Y Fan - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The ageing dynamics in a multiplicity of metastable glasses are investigated at various
thermomechanical conditions. By using data analytics to deconvolute the integral effects of …

Revealing the size effect mechanism of reversible grain boundary migration in nanocrystalline coppers: Molecular dynamics simulations and a refined disconnection …

A Hua, J Zhao, J Zhang, P Yu, N Wei, W Guo - Journal of the Mechanics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reversible grain boundary (GB) migration is of great significance for promoting cyclic
deformability and has been observed in nanocrystalline metals. However, GBs as …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of chemistry and structure on interfacial segregation in NbMoTaW with high-throughput atomistic simulations

I Geiger, J Luo, EJ Lavernia, P Cao, D Apelian… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Refractory multi-principal element alloys exhibiting promising mechanical properties such as
excellent strength retention at elevated temperatures have been attracting increasing …

Metastable grain boundaries: the roles of structural and chemical disorders in their energetics, non-equilibrium kinetic evolution, and mechanical behaviors

M He, Y Wang, Y Fan - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Complex environments in advanced manufacturing usually involve ultrafast laser or ion
irradiation which leads to rapid heating and cooling and drives grain boundaries (GBs) to …

Nonmonotonic effect of chemical heterogeneity on interfacial crack growth at high-angle grain boundaries in Fe-Ni-Cr alloys

Y Wang, B Ghaffari, C Taylor, S Lekakh… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
An intermittent pattern is observed in the modeling of interfacial cyclic-loading crack growth
at high-angle grain boundaries in ternary Fe-Ni-Cr alloys. Different from conventional …

Effect of high welding heat input on the microstructure and low-temperature toughness of heat affected zone in magnesium-treated EH36 steel

H Qi, Q Pang, W Li, S Bian - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In the present study, the welding thermal cycle of magnesium-treated EH36 steel was
simulated by a thermal simulation experiment machine. The effects of welding heat input on …

Predicting the energetics and kinetics of Cr atoms in Fe-Ni-Cr alloys via physics-based machine learning

Y Wang, B Ghaffari, C Taylor, S Lekakh, M Li, Y Fan - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The energy and activation barrier distributions of Cr atoms in austenitic alloys are
investigated over a multiplicity of modeling samples across a wide range of chemical (eg …