TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of quenching rate on crack propagation in NiAl alloy using molecular dynamics
AU - Sung, Po Hsien
AU - Chen, Tei Chen
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided to this study by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Taiwan under contract No. 104-2221-E-006-126 .
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - The crack growth and propagation of pre-cracked NiAl alloy prepared at different quenching rates under mode I loading conditions were investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation based on the many-body embedded atom method (EAM) potential. The quench rate effects were evaluated in terms of atomic trajectories, common neighbor analysis (CNA), radical distribution function (RDF) and glass transition. The simulation results clearly show that as the quenching rate increases ten times from 0.5 K/ps to 50 K/ps, the volume after quenching will increase by approximately 1%. The amorphous structure and crystalline structure exhibit two distinct types of fracture behavior between quenching rates of 0.25-50 K/ps. In the amorphous state, the critical stress increases with decreasing quenching rate. Moreover, two shear bands and the shear transformation zones (STZ) extend along a direction of about 45° with respect to the horizontal direction away from the crack tip.
AB - The crack growth and propagation of pre-cracked NiAl alloy prepared at different quenching rates under mode I loading conditions were investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation based on the many-body embedded atom method (EAM) potential. The quench rate effects were evaluated in terms of atomic trajectories, common neighbor analysis (CNA), radical distribution function (RDF) and glass transition. The simulation results clearly show that as the quenching rate increases ten times from 0.5 K/ps to 50 K/ps, the volume after quenching will increase by approximately 1%. The amorphous structure and crystalline structure exhibit two distinct types of fracture behavior between quenching rates of 0.25-50 K/ps. In the amorphous state, the critical stress increases with decreasing quenching rate. Moreover, two shear bands and the shear transformation zones (STZ) extend along a direction of about 45° with respect to the horizontal direction away from the crack tip.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.commatsci.2015.11.046
DO - 10.1016/j.commatsci.2015.11.046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84951202165
VL - 114
SP - 13
EP - 17
JO - Computational Materials Science
JF - Computational Materials Science
SN - 0927-0256
ER -