On the nonlocal nature of dislocation nucleation during nanoindentation

被引:76
作者
Miller, R. E. [1 ]
Rodney, D. [2 ]
机构
[1] Carleton Univ, Dept Mech & Aerosp Engn, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[2] INP Grenoble, CNRS, UMR 5266, F-38402 St Martin Dheres, France
关键词
dislocation nucleation; nanoindentation; atomistic modeling; nucleation criterion; indentation size effects;
D O I
10.1016/j.jmps.2007.10.005
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Using static atomistic simulations, we study the full details of the mechanism by which dislocations homogeneously nucleate beneath the surface of a initially defect-free crystal during indentation. The mechanism involves the collective motion of a finite disk of atoms over two adjacent slip planes, the diameter of which depends on the indenter size. The nucleation mechanism highlights the need for nonlocal considerations in the development of a nucleation criterion. We review three nucleation criteria from the literature, each of which is based on purely local measures of the state of stress, and show that none are sufficiently general to predict nucleation in realistic atomic systems. We then propose a criterion based on an eigenmode analysis of the atomic-scale acoustic tensor. We demonstrate the accuracy of the criterion, which also works in the presence of existing topological defects like free surfaces or dislocation cores. The dependence of the size of the nucleated disk on the indenter radius leads to a self-similar nucleation process and virtually no indentation size effect (ISE), suggesting that homogeneous nucleation is only possible for very small indenters. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1203 / 1223
页数:21
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