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Model for charge/discharge-rate-dependent plastic flow in amorphous battery materials

Seyed Mostafa Khosrownejad, William Curtin

Plastic flow is an important mechanism for relaxing stresses that develop due to swelling/shrinkage during charging/discharging of battery materials. Amorphous high-storage capacity Li-Si has lower flow stresses than crystalline materials but there is evid ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Hydrogen–vacancy–dislocation interactions in α-Fe

William Curtin, Ali Tehranchi, Xi Zhang

Atomistic simulations of the interactions between dislocations, hydrogen atoms, and vacancies are studied to assess the viability of a recently proposed mechanism for the formation of nanoscale voids in Fe-based steels in the presence of hydrogen. Quantum- ...

Institute of Physics2016

Micromechanical design of hierarchical composites using global load sharing theory

William Curtin, Varun Parameswaran Rajan

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

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

Multiscale diffusion method for simulations of long-time defect evolution with application to dislocation climb

William Curtin, Kristopher Learion Baker

In many problems of interest to materials scientists and engineers, the evolution of crystalline extended defects (dislocations, cracks, grain boundaries, interfaces, voids, precipitates) is controlled by the flow of point defects (interstitial/substitutio ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Design strategy for controlled natural aging in Al-Mg-Si alloys

William Curtin

This study presents a design strategy for Al-Mg-Si alloys to control natural aging. Recently, trace addition of Sn was shown to suppress natural aging for up to two weeks, which was explained by the strong trapping of vacancies to Sn atoms. Here we explore ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Energetics of dislocation transformations in hcp metals

William Curtin, Zhaoxuan Wu, Binglun Yin

Dislocation core structures of hcp metals are highly complex and differ significantly among the hcp family. Some dislocations undergo unconventional transformations that have significant effects on the material plastic flow. Here, the energetics of disloca ...

Elsevier2016

Mechanism and energetics of < c plus a > dislocation cross-slip in hcp metals

William Curtin, Zhaoxuan Wu

Hexagonal close-packed (hcp) metals such as Mg, Ti, and Zr are lightweight and/or durable metals with critical structural applications in the automotive (Mg), aerospace (Ti), and nuclear (Zr) industries. The hcp structure, however, brings significant compl ...

National Academy of Sciences2016

Strain hardening in 2D discrete dislocation dynamics simulations: A new '2.5D' algorithm

William Curtin, Shyam Mohan Keralavarma

The two-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics (2D DD) method, consisting of parallel straight edge dislocations gliding on independent slip systems in a plane strain model of a crystal, is often used to study complicated boundary value problems in crys ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Atomistic investigation of the influence of hydrogen on dislocation nucleation during nanoindentation in Ni and Pd

William Curtin, Xiao Zhou

The effects of hydrogen charging on the mechanical response of FCC Ni and Pd under nanoindentation are systematically investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Simulations consider a random H distribution and time scales prevent any diffusion of H du ...

Elsevier2016

Theory of strengthening in fcc high entropy alloys

William Curtin, Céline Varvenne

High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are a new class of random alloys having impressive strength and toughness. Here, a mechanistic, parameter-free, and predictive theory for the temperature-, composition-, and strain-rate-dependence of the plastic yield strength of ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

An interatomic pair potential with tunable intrinsic ductility

William Curtin, Derek Warner, Varun Parameswaran Rajan

A family of interatomic potentials is constructed for which the intrinsic ductility can be tuned systematically. Specifically, the elastic constants and critical energy release rate for Griffith cleavage, G(Ic), are held constant, while the critical energy ...

Institute of Physics2016

Crack tip blunting and cleavage under dynamic conditions

William Curtin, Varun Parameswaran Rajan

In structural materials with both brittle and ductile phases, cracks often initiate within the brittle phase and propagate dynamically towards the ductile phase. The macroscale, quasistatic toughness of the material thus depends on the outcome of this micr ...

Elsevier2016

Theory of strengthening in fcc high entropy alloys (vol 118, pg 164, 2016)

William Curtin, Céline Varvenne

Elsevier2016

Average-atom interatomic potential for random alloys

William Curtin, Céline Varvenne

An average-atom (A-atom) embedded-atom-method potential for random multicomponent alloys at any composition is derived analytically and validated by comparing A-atom and true random alloys bulk and defect properties, in model Fe-Ni-Cr systems. The A-atom c ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Thermally-activated flow in nominally binary Al-Mg alloys

William Curtin

The temperature-dependent flow behavior in nominally binary Al-Mg alloys measured recently (Jobba etal., 2015; Niewczas et al., 2015) is interpreted in the context of a parameter-free solute strengthening model. The recent measurements show consistently hi ...

Elsevier2016

Microalloying for the controllable delay of precipitate formation in metal alloys

William Curtin, Michael Frederick Francis

A model is presented to predict the effectiveness of dilute solutes in delaying precipitate formation, with application to natural and artificial aging in metal alloys. Control of aging is achieved via the binding, at natural aging temperatures, and releas ...

Elsevier2016

Potential routes to stronger carbon nanotube fibres via carbon ion irradiation and deposition

William Curtin, Daniel Mulvihill

Fibres made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have not yet achieved strengths approaching that of individual CNTs. The problem is that load is not effectively transferred between the constituent, discontinuous CNTs. High energy irradiation has shown promise on ...

Elsevier2016

Intrinsic structural transitions of the pyramidal I 〈c+a〉 dislocation in magnesium

William Curtin, Zhaoxuan Wu

The stability of a mixed < c + a > dislocation on the pyramidal I plane in magnesium is studied using molecular dynamics simulations. The dislocation is metastable and undergoes a thermally-activated transition to either a sessile, basal-dissociated < c + ...

Elsevier2016

Thermodynamic properties of average-atom interatomic potentials for alloys

William Curtin, Wolfram Georg Nöhring

The atomistic mechanisms of deformation in multicomponent random alloys are challenging to model because of their extensive structural and compositional disorder. For embedded-atom-method interatomic potentials, a formal averaging procedure can generate an ...

Institute of Physics2016

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