期刊
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE
卷 96, 期 27, 页码 2868-2886出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14786435.2016.1217360
关键词
Grain boundaries; grain boundary sliding; intergranular decohesion; density functional theory
类别
资金
- Department of Energy, SciDac [ER-25788]
- Graduate School of Excellence MAINZ
- IDEE project of the Carl Zeiss Foundation
We investigate the changes in grain boundary sliding (GBS) and intergranular decohesion in copper (Cu), due to the inclusion of bismuth (Bi), lead (Pb) and silver (Ag) substitutional impurity atoms at a Sigma 5 (012) symmetric tilt grain boundary (GB), using a first-principles concurrent multiscale approach. We first study the segregation behavior of the impurities by determining the impurity segregation energy in the vicinity of the GB. We find that the energetically preferred sites are on the GB plane. We investigate the intergranular decohesion of Cu by Bi and Pb impurities and compare this to the effect of Ag impurities by considering the work of separation, Ws and the tensile strength, st. Both Ws and st decrease in the presence of Bi and Pb impurities, indicating their great propensity for intergranular embrittlement, whilst the presence of Ag impurities has only a small effect. We consider GBS to assess the mechanical properties in nanocrystalline metals and find that all three impurities strongly inhibit GBS, with Ag having the biggest effect. This suggests that Ag has a strong effect on the mechanical properties of nanocrystalline Cu, even though its effect on the intergranular decohesion properties of coarse-grained Cu is not significant.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据