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Dislocation motion in plastic deformation of nano polycrystalline metal materials: a phase field crystal method study

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The evolution mechanisms of grain boundaries and dislocations, including grain morphology, grain boundary structure, and dislocation motion during plastic deformation in polycrystalline composites at low and high temperatures, are simulated by phase field crystal method. The plastic deformation of nano polycrystalline composites includes four stages: the annihilation of adjacent dislocations on grain boundaries, the absorption of grain boundary dislocations, the emission of grain boundary fold dislocations, and the annihilation of dislocations in grains. With the increase of temperature, the motion of dislocation changes from slip to climb and slip. At high-temperature \(r=-0.25\), the attraction of grain boundary to dislocation is greater than that between different dislocations. At low-temperature \(r=-0.40\), different dislocations annihilate to form new dislocation pairs, which are absorbed by the grain boundaries. This research is helpful to understand the interaction mechanism between grain boundaries and dislocations in nano polycrystalline composites, and it is proposed that the mode and rate of dislocation entering grain boundary can be controlled by temperature, so as to regulate the mechanical properties of nano polycrystalline materials.

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The phase-field-crystal method is used to simulate the interactive evolution mechanism of grain boundaries and dislocations during plastic deformation of polycrystalline structure at different temperatures, including grain morphology, grain boundary structure, and dislocation behavior.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52074246).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China

    Yuhong Zhao, Kexin Liu, Haibin Zhang, Xiaolin Tian & Hua Hou

  2. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Yuhong Zhao

  3. Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Fayetteville, AR, 71601, USA

    Qinglong Jiang

  4. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Vignesh Murugadoss & Hua Hou

  5. Advanced Materials Division, Engineered Multifunctional Composites (EMC) Nanotech LLC, Knoxville, TN, 37934, USA

    Vignesh Murugadoss

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Zhao, Y., Liu, K., Zhang, H. et al. Dislocation motion in plastic deformation of nano polycrystalline metal materials: a phase field crystal method study. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 5, 2546–2556 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-022-00522-2

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