Science in China Series E-Technological Sciences
An analysis model has been established according to the structure feature of high porosity metals, and the mathematical relationship between the tensile strength and porosity for this material has been derived from the model. Moreover, the corresponding theoretical formula has been proved good to reflect the variation law of tensile strength with porosity for high porosity metals by the example experiment on nickel foam.
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high porosity metal;tensile strength;porosity;foams
Journal of Nuclear Materials
Due to its inert reactivity with almost elements, He-3 produced from tritium decay has extremely detrimental effects on the tritide. To refrain from this He-3-induced damage, an efficient way is to increase the stability of He-3 in metal tritide by alloying. Using a first-principles discrete variational method in two cluster models, one for a low He-3 concentration and the other for a high He-3 concentration, the authors study the alloying effect of 3d and 4d transition metals on the stability of He-3 in TiT2 system. It is found that the preferring and metastable sites of He-3 are affected by He-3 concentration : He-3 prefers to stay at original tetrahedral interstitial site when He-3 concentration is low but moves to octahedral site when He-3 concentration is high enough. A criterion of alloying effect is proposed, according to which Nb, Y, Zr, Pd, Ru, Tc, Rh, Cr, Mo and Ag are suggested to be the beneficial alloying elements for increasing the stability of He-3 in the alloyed TiT2 with a low He-3 concentration and Y, Nb, Mo, Zr, Cr, Tc, Ru, Rh and Cu for that with a high He-3 concentration. Our results of alloying effect are supported by the positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) measurements for He-implanted Ti, TiMoYAl and TiZrYAl films. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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electronic population analysis;molecular wave functions;hydrogen;storage alloys;intermetallic hydride;bubble formation;iron clusters;helium;tritides;lcao;overlap
Philosophical Magazine a-Physics of Condensed Matter Structure Defects and Mechanical Properties
A first-principles method based on the local-density approximation using discrete variational clusters has been used to study the electronic structure of the hcp metals, Be, Mg, Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, Co, Zn and Cd. The binding energy of these metals was calculated in relation to the volume of a unit cell. The variation in the binding energy with the unit cell volume was obtained by means of a polynomial fit. The theoretical tensile strength and bulk modulus of these metals were estimated from the electronic structure and binding energy calculations. The predicted bulk moduli for these metals are in good agreement with experimental findings and other available theoretical data. A linear relationship between the calculated and the experimental strengths is observed.
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potentials;density
Nature
In conventional metals, there is plenty of space for dislocations-line defects whose motion results in permanent material deformation-to multiply, so that the metal strengths are controlled by dislocation interactions with grain boundaries(1,2) and other obstacles(3,4). For nano-structured materials, in contrast, dislocation multiplication is severely confined by the nanometre-scale geometries so that continued plasticity can be expected to be source-controlled. Nano-grained polycrystalline materials were found to be strong but brittle(5-9), because both nucleation and motion of dislocations are effectively suppressed by the nanoscale crystallites. Here we report a dislocation-nucleation-controlled mechanism in nano-twinned metals(10,11) in which there are plenty of dislocation nucleation sites but dislocation motion is not confined. We show that dislocation nucleation governs the strength of such materials, resulting in their softening below a critical twin thickness. Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and a kinetic theory of dislocation nucleation in nano-twinned metals show that there exists a transition in deformation mechanism, occurring at a critical twin-boundary spacing for which strength is maximized. At this point, the classical Hall-Petch type of strengthening due to dislocation pile-up and cutting through twin planes switches to a dislocation-nucleation-controlled softening mechanism with twin-boundary migration resulting from nucleation and motion of partial dislocations parallel to the twin planes. Most previous studies(12,13) did not consider a sufficient range of twin thickness and therefore missed this strength-softening regime. The simulations indicate that the critical twin-boundary spacing for the onset of softening in nano-twinned copper and the maximum strength depend on the grain size: the smaller the grain size, the smaller the critical twin-boundary spacing, and the higher the maximum strength of the material.
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molecular-dynamics simulation;nanocrystalline materials;mechanical-properties;nanotwinned copper;deformation;plasticity;nanoscale;ductility;crystals;nickel
MA Zongyi YAO Zhongkai Harbin Institute of Technology
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金属学报(英文版)
The SiC_w/Al composite prepared by squeeze casting has a combination of superior room temperature specific strength and modulus together with excellent thermal properties.The extrusion can make an improvement on the strength and ductility of the composite from 582 MPa as squeeze casted up to 639 MPa,and on the transformation from isotropic to the anisotropic structure.This seems to be explained by the orientation of whiskers and the densification of dislocations in matrix.TEM observation indicates that the stacking fault is the usual planar defect on the SiC_w surface. composite;;SiC whisker;;Al alloy;;microstructure
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composite
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