Plastic Ploughing of a Sinusoidal Asperity on a Rough Surface

2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Song ◽  
R. J. Dikken ◽  
L. Nicola ◽  
E. Van der Giessen

Part of the friction between two rough surfaces is due to the interlocking between asperities on opposite surfaces. In order for the surfaces to slide relative to each other, these interlocking asperities have to deform plastically. Here, we study the unit process of plastic ploughing of a single micrometer-scale asperity by means of two-dimensional dislocation dynamics simulations. Plastic deformation is described through the generation, motion, and annihilation of edge dislocations inside the asperity as well as in the subsurface. We find that the force required to plough an asperity at different ploughing depths follows a Gaussian distribution. For self-similar asperities, the friction stress is found to increase with the inverse of size. Comparison of the friction stress is made with other two contact models to show that interlocking asperities that are larger than ∼2 μm are easier to shear off plastically than asperities with a flat contact.

1995 ◽  
Vol 399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Smith ◽  
David J. Srolovitz

ABSTRACTTwo dimensional, non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to examine the microstructures of both homoepitaxial and heteroepitaxial thin films grown on single crystal substrates. The principal microstructural features to develop within these films are small voids and edge dislocations. Voids form near the surface of the growing film as surface depressions between microcolumns pinch off to become closed volumes. These voids often form in such a way as to introduce dislocations into the crystal with their cores positioned within the voids. Dislocations are also formed during heteroepitaxy at the interface between the substrate and film. These dislocations tend to be mobile. When voids are present in the film and when the lattice misfit is low, dislocations tend to be trapped in the voids or pulled toward them due to dislocation image interactions. Once attached to voids, dislocations are effectively pinned there. When voids are absent or when the misfit is high, dislocations are restricted to the film-substrate interface. In the case of heteroepitaxy, dislocations are found to relieve either tensile or compressive misfit stresses. Misfit stresses may also be accommodated, to some extent, merely by the free volume of the voids themselves.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 478
Author(s):  
Yinan Cui ◽  
Nasr Ghoniem

Three-dimensional (3D) discrete dislocation dynamics simulations are used to analyze the size effect on the fractal dimension of two-dimensional (2D) and 3D dislocation microstructure. 2D dislocation structures are analyzed first, and the calculated fractal dimension ( n 2 ) is found to be consistent with experimental results gleaned from transmission electron microscopy images. The value of n 2 is found to be close to unity for sizes smaller than 300 nm, and increases to a saturation value of ≈1.8 for sizes above approximately 10 microns. It is discovered that reducing the sample size leads to a decrease in the fractal dimension because of the decrease in the likelihood of forming strong tangles at small scales. Dislocation ensembles are found to exist in a more isolated way at the nano- and micro-scales. Fractal analysis is carried out on 3D dislocation structures and the 3D fractal dimension ( n 3 ) is determined. The analysis here shows that ( n 3 ) is significantly smaller than ( n 2 + 1 ) of 2D projected dislocations in all considered sizes.


1992 ◽  
Vol 296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Sinkovits ◽  
Lee Phillips ◽  
Elaine S. Oran ◽  
Jay P. Boris

AbstractThe interactions of shocks with defects in two-dimensional square and hexagonal lattices of particles interacting through Lennard-Jones potentials are studied using molecular dynamics. In perfect lattices at zero temperature, shocks directed along one of the principal axes propagate through the crystal causing no permanent disruption. Vacancies, interstitials, and to a lesser degree, massive defects are all effective at converting directed shock motion into thermalized two-dimensional motion. Measures of lattice disruption quantitatively describe the effects of the different defects. The square lattice is unstable at nonzero temperatures, as shown by its tendency upon impact to reorganize into the lower-energy hexagonal state. This transition also occurs in the disordered region associated with the shock-defect interaction. The hexagonal lattice can be made arbitrarily stable even for shock-vacancy interactions through appropriate choice of potential parameters. In reactive crystals, these defect sites may be responsible for the onset of detonation. All calculations are performed using a program optimized for the massively parallel Connection Machine.


2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Kishimoto ◽  
Yuya Shinohara ◽  
Yoshio Suzuki ◽  
Akihisa Takeuchi ◽  
Naoto Yagi ◽  
...  

A pinhole-type two-dimensional ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering set-up at a so-called medium-length beamline at SPring-8 is reported. A long sample-to-detector distance, 160.5 m, can be used at this beamline and a small-angle resolution of 0.25 µm−1was thereby achieved at an X-ray energy of 8 keV.


Author(s):  
Bharti bharti ◽  
Debabrata Deb

We use molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the ordering phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) liquid crystals over the one-dimensional periodic substrate (1DPS). We have used Gay-Berne (GB) potential to model the...


1993 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Li ◽  
W. L. Johnson ◽  
W. A. Goddard

ABSTRACTThermodynamic properties, structures, defects and their configurations of a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones (LJ) system are investigated close to crystal to glass transition (CGT) via molecular dynamics simulations. The CGT is achieved by saturating the LJ binary arrays below glass transition temperature with one type of the atoms which has different atomic size from that of the host atoms. It was found that for a given atomic size difference larger than a critical value, the CGT proceeds with increasing solute concentrations in three stages, each of which is characterized by distinct behaviors of translational and bond-orientational order correlation functions. An intermediate phase which has a quasi-long range orientational order but short range translational order has been found to exist prior to the formation of the amorphous phase. The destabilization of crystallinity is observed to be directly related to defects. We examine these results in the context of two dimensional (2D) melting theory. Finite size effects on these results, in particular on the intermediate phase formation, are discussed.


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