Abstract
We present a physically motivated computational study explaining the tension/compression (T/C) asymmetry phenomenon in nanocrystalline (nc) and ultrafine-grained (ufg) face centered cubic (fcc) metals utilizing a variational constitutive model where the nc-metal is modeled as a two-phase material consisting of a grain interior phase and a grain boundary affected zone (GBAZ). We show that the existence of voids and their growth in GBAZ renders the material pressure sensitivity due to porous plasticity and that the utilized model provides a physically sound mechanism to capture the experimentally observed T/C asymmetry in nc- and ufg-metals. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 639-644 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Computational Materials Science |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2010 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: This work was fully funded by the KAUST baseline fund.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Mechanics of Materials
- General Materials Science
- Computational Mathematics
- General Chemistry
- General Computer Science