Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 108-130Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2014.08.015
Keywords
Dislocations; Metallic material; Numerical algorithms; Ductility
Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- DOE's Early Career Research Program
- Consejo Social
- PhD program of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
- Centre for Doctoral Training on Theory and Simulation of Materials at Imperial College London - EPSRC [EP/G036888/1]
- European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme
- United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G050031]
- RCUK Energy Programme [EP/I501045]
- EPSRC [EP/I501045/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Thermally-activated 1/2 < 111 > screw dislocation motion is the controlling plastic mechanism at low temperatures in body-centered cubic (bcc) crystals. Dislocation motion proceeds by nucleation and propagation of atomic-sized kink pairs in close-packed planes. The atomistic character of kink pairs can be studied using techniques such as molecular dynamics (MD). However, MD's natural inability to properly sample thermally-activated processes as well as to capture {110} screw dislocation glide calls for the development of other methods capable of overcoming these limitations. Here we develop a kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) approach to study single screw dislocation dynamics from room temperature to 0.5T(m), and at stresses 0 < sigma < 0.9 sigma(P), where T-m and sigma(P) are the melting point and the Peierls stress. The method is entirely parameterized with atomistic simulations using an embedded atom potential for tungsten. To increase the physical fidelity of our simulations, we calculate the deviations from Schmid's law prescribed by the interatomic potential used and we study single dislocation kinetics using both projections. We calculate dislocation velocities as a function of stress, temperature, and dislocation line length. We find that considering non-Schmid effects has a strong influence on both the magnitude of the velocities and the trajectories followed by the dislocation. We finish by condensing all the calculated data into effective stress and temperature dependent mobilities to be used in more homogenized numerical methods. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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