Role of dislocations on martensitic transformation temperatures and microstructure: A molecular dynamics study.

Autor: Farache, David, Mishra, Saswat, Tripathi, Shivam, Strachan, Alejandro
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Physics; 7/21/2024, Vol. 136 Issue 3, p1-9, 9p
Abstrakt: Microstructure and defects strongly affect martensitic transformations in metallic alloys. Significant progress has been made in understanding the atomic-level processes that control the role of grain boundaries and precipitates in these solid-to-solid phase transformations. Yet, the role of dislocations and their structures on martensitic transformation temperature and the resulting microstructure remains unclear. Therefore, we used large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to study the forward and reverse transformation of a martensitic material modeled after Ni63Al37 under cyclic thermal loading. The simulations reveal that dislocations in the austenite phase act as one-dimensional seeds for the martensite phase, which is present at temperatures significantly above the martensite start value. We find a reduction in the dislocation density during cyclic thermal loading, which results in the increase in martensite and austenite transition temperatures, in agreement with experiments. Importantly, we extracted a critical martensitic nuclei size for developing stable domains and found that relatively low dislocation densities are needed to grow independent martensitic variants resulting in a multi-domain structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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