Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 60, Issue 18, Pages 6421-6428Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2012.08.029
Keywords
Grain boundary; Deformation twins; Intergranular fracture; Slip transfer
Funding
- INL-LDRD project [INL-LDRD 10-008-CP.01.01.GL.08.11]
- Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC [DE-AC07-05ID14517]
- U.S. Department of Energy
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This work studies deformation twins in nanocrystalline body-centered cubic Mo, including the nucleation and growth mechanisms as well as their effects on ductility, through molecular dynamics simulations. The deformation processes of nanocrystalline Mo are simulated using a columnar grain model with three different orientations. The deformation mechanisms identified, including dislocation slip, grain-boundary-mediated plasticity, deformation twins and martensitic transformation, are in agreement with previous studies. In < 1 1 0 > columnar grains, the deformation is dominated by twinning, which nucleates primarily from the grain boundaries by successive emission of twinning partials and thickens by jog nucleation in the grain interiors. Upon arrest by a grain boundary, the twin may either produce continuous plastic strain across the grain boundary by activating compatible twinning/slip systems or result in intergranular failure in the absence of compatible twinning/slip systems in the neighboring grain. Multiple twinning systems can be activated in the same grain, and the competition between them favors those capable of producing continuous deformation across the grain boundary. (C) 2012 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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