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Multi-scale modeling of dislocation plasticity in nano-architectected metals

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2023/5/20 - 2023/5/25

참가자

Cuong P. Nguyen, Ill Ryu

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The 7th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME 2023), Orlando, FL, USA

Nano-architectected metals can exploit the combination of resilient architecture with size-dependent enhanced properties at nanoscale to achieve exceptional mechanical performance. To obtain a mechanistic understanding of plastic deformation in these materials requires an integrated computational model which can capture the relation between the dislocation microstructure characteristics and the macroscopic mechanical response. Recently, we develop a multi-scale model to concurrently couple dislocation dynamics (DD) modeling with finite element method (FEM). The DD simulation could keep track of dynamic motion of dislocations and computer the accompanying plastic strain, while FEM simulation solves for the stress field to satisfy the equilibrium condition. By integrating these, our model could provide a unique opportunity to investigate fundamental deformation mechanism based on dislocation plasticity and corresponding macroscopic mechanical response. In this study, multi-scale simulations of meso-scale architected structures under uniaxial compression were performed. The architected structures exhibit increasing strength with decreasing unit cell size, which agrees with experimental observations. Closer examination at the dislocation microstructure shows plasticity is localized at the structures’ nodes due to high stress concentration.