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Modeling of precipitate strengthening with near-chemical accuracy: case study of Al-6xxx alloys

William Curtin, Yi Hu

Many metal alloys are strengthened by controlling precipitation to achieve an optimal peak-aged condi-tion where the strength-limiting processes of precipitate shearing and Orowan looping are thought to be comparable. Qualitative models have long captured ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Mechanical Stress Combined with Alloying May Allow Continuous Control Over Reactivity: Strain Effects on CO Dissociation and Subsequent Methanation Catalysis over Ni(211), Ni3Fe(211), and NiFe(112)

William Curtin

Mechanical stress combined with alloying as controlled by CO dissociation is investigated for the control of methanation activity. CO dissociation over strained Ni(211), Ni3Fe(211), and NiFe(112) is investigated. A continuous 0.62 eV range of CO reaction e ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Yield strength and misfit volumes of NiCoCr and implications for short-range-order

William Curtin, Binglun Yin

The face-centered cubic medium-entropy alloy NiCoCr has received considerable attention for its good mechanical properties, uncertain stacking fault energy, etc, some of which have been attributed to chemical short-range order (SRO). Here, we examine the y ...

Nature Research2020

Solute strengthening of prism edge dislocations in Mg alloys

William Curtin, Masoud Rahbarniazi

The poor ductility of hcp Mg is attributed to the low activity of non-basal slip systems and so activation of prismatic slip can aid ductility in rolled sheets by providing three additional < a > Burgers vector slip systems. Experimental studies show that ...

ELSEVIER2024

Micromechanical design of hierarchical composites using global load sharing theory

William Curtin

Hierarchical composites, embodied by natural materials ranging from bone to bamboo, may offer combinations of material properties inaccessible to conventional composites. Using global load sharing (GLS) theory, a well-established micromechanics model for c ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Machine learning for metallurgy I. A neural-network potential for Al-Cu

William Curtin, Daniel John Gilles Marchand, Albert Johann Glensk, Abhinav Jain

High-strength metal alloys achieve their performance via careful control of precipitates and solutes. The nucleation, growth, and kinetics of precipitation, and the resulting mechanical properties, are inherently atomic scale phenomena, particularly during ...

2020

Designing high ductility in magnesium alloys

William Curtin, Binglun Yin, Rasool Ahmad

The thermally activated pyramidal-to-basal (PB) transition of (c + a) dislocations, transforming glissile pyramidal dissociated core structures into sessile basal dissociated ones, lies at the origin of low ductility in pure magnesium (Mg). Solute-accelera ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

High energy barriers for edge dislocation motion in body-centered cubic high entropy alloys

Recep Ekin Kubilay, William Curtin, Francesco Maresca, Alireza Ghafarollahi

Recent theory proposes that edge dislocations in random body-centered cubic (BCC) high entropy alloys have high barriers for motion, conveying high strengths up to high temperatures. Here, the energy barriers for edge motion are computed for two model allo ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Neural network potential for Al-Mg-Si alloys

William Curtin, Michele Ceriotti, Till Junge, Daniele Giofré

The 6000 series Al alloys, which include a few percent of Mg and Si, are important in automotive and aviation industries because of their low weight, as compared to steels, and the fact their strength can be greatly improved through engineered precipitatio ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

High throughput synthesis enabled exploration of CoCrFeNi-based high entropy alloys

William Curtin, Xiao Zhou

To accelerate the exploration, screening, and discovery of structural high-entropy alloys with targeted properties, the newly developed High-Throughput Hot-Isostatic-Pressing based Micro-Synthesis Approach (HT-HIP-MSA) is employed to efficiently synthesize ...

JOURNAL MATER SCI TECHNOL2022

Combining experiments and modeling to explore the solid solution strengthening of high and medium entropy alloys

William Curtin, Céline Varvenne

The mechanical properties due to solid solution strengthening are explored within the single phase face-centered cubic (fcc) domain of the Co-Cr-Fe-Mn Ni high entropy alloy (HEA) system. This is achieved by combining an efficient and reproducible metallurg ...

2019

Analysis of double cross-slip of pyramidal I < c plus a > screw dislocations and implications for ductility in Mg alloys

William Curtin, Rasool Ahmad

Solute accelerated cross-slip of pyramidal < c + a > screw dislocations has recently been recognized as a crucial mechanism in enhancing the ductility of solid-solution Mg alloys. In pure Mg, cross-slip is ineffective owing to the energy difference between ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Measurement and prediction of the transformation strain that controls ductility and toughness in advanced steels

William Curtin, Helena Van Swygenhoven, Francesco Maresca

New-generation multi-phase martensitic steels derive their high strength from the body-centered cubic (BCC) phase and high toughness from transformation of the metastable face-centered cubic (FCC) austenite that transforms into martensite upon loading. In ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Machine learning potential for the Cu-W system

William Curtin

Combining the excellent thermal and electrical properties of Cu with the high abrasion resistance and thermal stability of W, Cu-W nanoparticle-reinforced metal matrix composites and nano-multilayers are finding applications as brazing fillers and shieldin ...

2024

Analysis of dissociation of < c > and < c+a > dislocations to nucleate (1 0 -1 2) twins in Mg

William Curtin

A mechanism for (1 0 (1) over bar 2) twin nucleation in Mg is studied in which edge < c > and mixed < c + a > lattice dislocations dissociate into a stable twin, having at least the minimum 6-layer thickness formed by three glissile twinning dislocations, ...

Institute of Physics2013

Solute strengthening at high temperatures

William Curtin

The high temperature behavior of solute strengthening has previously been treated approximately using various scaling arguments, resulting in logarithmic and power-law scalings for the stress-dependent energy barrier Delta E(tau) versus stress tau. Here, a ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Optimizing strength and toughness of nanofiber-reinforced CMCs

William Curtin, Fabio Pavia

Nanofibers used in current ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are usually wavy and of finite length. Here, a shear-lag model for predicting the tensile strength and work of fracture of a composite containing a "single matrix crack", as a function of all the ...

Elsevier2012

Efficient lattice Green's function method for bounded domain problems

William Curtin, Max Ludwig Hodapp, Ankit Gupta

The lattice Green's function method (LGFM) is the discrete counterpart of the continuum boundary element method and is a natural approach for solving intrinsically discrete solid mechanics problems that arise in atomistic-continuum coupling methods. Here, ...

Wiley2022

Strengthening of high entropy alloys by dilute solute additions: CoCrFeNiAlx and CoCrFeNiMnAlx alloys

William Curtin, Céline Varvenne

A theory to predict the initial flow stress of an arbitrary N-component fcc random alloy is extended to predict the additional strengthening when a dilute concentration of a substitutional element is introduced. Assuming properties for the N-component allo ...

2017

The austenite/lath martensite interface in steels: Structure, athermal motion, and in-situ transformation strain revealed by simulation and theory

William Curtin, Francesco Maresca

The austenite/martensite (fcc/bcc) interface is prevalent across many new classes of high-strength steels, and yet both its fundamental structure and its mechanism of motion remain uncertain in spite of decades of research. Here, atomistic simulations are ...

2017