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Stress Localization Resulting from Grain Boundary Dislocation Interactions in Relaxed and Defective Grain Boundaries

  • Bryan Kuhr
  • Diana FarkasEmail author
  • Ian M. Robertson
  • Drew Johnson
  • Gary Was
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Abstract

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations are used to study strain and stress localization in atomistic polycrystalline FCC digital samples in a thin-film configuration, deformed in tension. Special focus is placed on the effects of additional grain boundary disorder on the dislocation–grain boundary interaction. The development of the localized stress and strain regions is studied as dislocations are emitted from and arrive at grain boundaries. Digital samples with two different degrees of disorder in the grain boundaries but otherwise identical microstructures are compared in order to understand the effects of additional defects on the stress concentration that develops at the grain boundaries. Localization phenomena are found to depend on the details of the grain boundary defect structure and relaxation state. The results clearly show that the samples with more disordered grain boundaries are more prone to strain and stress localization, with a higher fraction of atoms experiencing extreme deformation. The simulation results are validated by comparison with the predictions of continuum theories and experimental measurements of localized stress performed in austenitic stainless steel.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under grant DE-FG02-08ER46525. The authors would like to acknowledge Advanced Research Computing at Virginia Tech for providing computational resources and technical support that have contributed to the results reported within this paper (www.arc.vt.edu). The simulations in this paper were run using the LAMMPS software package (lammps.sandia.gov). Figures were generated using OVITO (www.ovito.org).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Bryan Kuhr
    • 1
  • Diana Farkas
    • 1
    Email author
  • Ian M. Robertson
    • 2
  • Drew Johnson
    • 3
  • Gary Was
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of Materials Science and EngineeringVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburgUSA
  2. 2.Department of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of WisconsinMadisonUSA
  3. 3.Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences DepartmentUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborUSA

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