Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.184104
Keywords
copper; dislocation pinning; hardening; iron; molecular dynamics method; precipitation; shear strength; solid-state phase transformations
Funding
- DOE NERI [DE-FC07-06ID14748]
- NSF-NIRT [CMS-0506841, DMR-00116566]
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Atomistic simulations of the interaction of a screw dislocation in alpha-Fe with different size bcc Cu precipitates suggest two plausible strengthening mechanisms. For precipitate diameters in the range 1.5 nm < d < 3.3 nm, the dislocation core structure within the Cu precipitate undergoes a polarized to nonpolarized transformation, leading to the dislocation pinning at the precipitate-matrix interface and the bowing out of the dislocation line. The calculated bow-out angle and resolved shear stress required to detach the dislocation from the precipitate are in agreement with recent experiments. The structural transition of larger (d >= 3.3 nm) Cu precipitates under high shear stress is responsible for the loss of slip systems and hence for dislocation pinning.
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