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The Mechanics and Physics of Defect Nucleation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Ju Li
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Abstract

The following article is based on the Outstanding Young Investigator Award presentation given by Ju Li on April 19, 2006, at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Li received the award “for his innovative work on the atomistic and first-principles modeling of nanoindentation and ideal strength in revealing the genesis of materials deformation and fracture.”

Defect nucleation plays a critical role in the mechanical behavior of materials, especially if the system size is reduced to the submicron scale. At the most fundamental level, defect nucleation is controlled by bond breaking and reformation events, driven typically by mechanical strain and electronegativity differences. For these processes, atomistic and first-principles calculations are uniquely suited to provide an unprecedented level of mechanistic detail. Several connecting threads incorporating notions in continuum mechanics and explicit knowledge of the interatomic energy landscape can be identified, such as homogeneous versus heterogeneous nucleation, cleavage versus shear-faulting tendencies, chemomechanical coupling, and the fact that defects are singularities at the continuum level but regularized at the atomic scale. Examples are chosen from nano-indentation, crack-tip processes, and grain-boundary processes. In addition to the capacity of simulations to identify candidate mechanisms, the computed athermal strength, activation energy, and activation volume can be compared quantitatively with experiments to define the fundamental properties of defects in solids.

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 32 , Issue 2: Functional Nanowires , February 2007 , pp. 151 - 159
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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