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PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE A-PHYSICS OF CONDENSED MATTER STRUCTURE DEFECTS AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
Volume 81, Issue 7, Pages 1725-1747Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01418610108216634
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Using pseudopotential density functional theory within the local-density approximation, we calculate the ideal shear strengths of W for slip on {110}, {112} and {123} planes allowing for complete structural relaxation orthogonal to the applied shear. The strengths in the weak direction on all planes are found to very nearly equal (about 18 GPa, or 11% of the shear modulus G). Moreover, the shear instability occurs at approximately the same applied shear strain (17-18%). This unusual isotropy is explained in terms of the atomic configuration of high-energy saddle points reached during shear. Analysis of these saddle points may also offer a simple explanation for the prevalence of the pencil glide of dislocation on planes containing a < 111 > direction in bcc metals. Finally, we calculate the ideal cleavage strength of W on {100} and compare our calculated ideal shear and cleavage strengths with experimental nanoindentation and whisker measurements. All these results can be rather simply understood using a Frenkel-Orowan crystallographic mode.
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