Study on the effects of H on the plastic deformation behavior of grain boundaries in Nickle by MD simulation

Autor: Jiawei Chen, Yaxin Zhu, Minsheng Huang, Lv Zhao, Shuang Liang, Shulin Yuan, Zhenhuan Li
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Materials & Design, Vol 215, Iss , Pp 110472- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0264-1275
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110472
Popis: It is generally believed that the influence of hydrogen on plastic deformation of grain boundaries should be considered when analyzing hydrogen-induced intergranular fracture in polycrystalline metals. In this paper, the equilibrated H distribution around GBs was firstly investigated by employing the grand canonical Monte Carlo method. Then, MD simulations were performed to study the plastic response of GBs under uniaxial tensile loads in different directions, with various bulk H concentrations considered. The results indicate that the influence of H on dislocation nucleation from GB depends on both tensile directions and characteristics of GB structures. Specifically, two dislocation nucleation mechanisms, called dislocation dissociation nucleation (DDN) and heterogeneous dislocation nucleation (HDN), are identified. Careful analyses show that H segregation can increase the energy barrier of DDN, which results in H-inhibited dislocation nucleation. In contrast, the HDN mechanism involves H-enhanced or H-insensitive dislocation nucleation, which mainly depends on the influence of H on GB stress.
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