Atomistic investigations on the mechanical properties and fracture mechanisms of indium phosphide nanowires

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 8647-8657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Turash Haque Pial ◽  
Tawfiqur Rakib ◽  
Satyajit Mojumder ◽  
Mohammad Motalab ◽  
M. A. Salam Akanda

Molecular dynamics tensile simulations reveal that the cleavage fracture plane of ZB InP NWs varies with temperature, while the cleavage plane of WZ InP NWs remains fixed at all temperatures.

Author(s):  
Marcelo Lopes Pereira Junior ◽  
Wiliam Ferreira da Cunha ◽  
Douglas Soares Galvão ◽  
Luiz Antonio Ribeiro Junior

Recently, laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition has been used to synthesize a free-standing, continuous, and stable monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC).


2011 ◽  
Vol 378-379 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Gui Xue Bian ◽  
Yue Liang Chen ◽  
Jian Jun Hu ◽  
Li Xu

Molecular dynamics simulation was used to simulate the tension process of purity and containing impurity metal aluminum. Elastic constants of purity and containing impurity metal aluminum were calculated, and the effects of impurity on the elastic constants were also studied. The results show that O-Al bond and Al-Al bond near oxygen atoms could be the sites of crack nucleation or growth under tensile load, the method can be extended to research mechanical properties of other metals and alloys structures.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
Jiaqing Li ◽  
Cheng Lu ◽  
Long Wang ◽  
Linqing Pei ◽  
Ajit Godbole ◽  
...  

Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) has been extensively studied in bulk materials. However, little is known about the role of H on the plastic deformation and fracture mechanisms of nanoscale materials such as nanowires. In this study, molecular dynamics simulations are employed to study the influence of H segregation on the behavior of intergranular cracks in bicrystalline α-Fe nanowires. The results demonstrate that segregated H atoms have weak embrittling effects on the predicted ductile cracks along the GBs, but favor the cleavage process of intergranular cracks in the theoretically brittle directions. Furthermore, it is revealed that cyclic loading can promote the H accumulation into the GB region ahead of the crack tip and overcome crack trapping, thus inducing a ductile-to-brittle transformation. This information will deepen our understanding on the experimentally-observed H-assisted brittle cleavage failure and have implications for designing new nanocrystalline materials with high resistance to HE.


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