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Amorphization of Nanolaminates during Severe Plastic Deformation: Molecular Simulations in the Cu-Zr System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Alan C. Lund  and
Christopher A. Schuh
Alan C. Lund
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 02139
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Abstract

Mechanical alloying techniques, which use plastic deformation to effect structural changes, are commonly used to prepare nanostructured metals with exemplary mechanical properties. When these nanostructured metals are subjected to further straining fully amorphous alloys can result, but there is little understanding of the atomic-scale mechanisms behind this amorphization. In the present work, we explore the final stages of such a mechanical alloying process via molecular simulations. Initial Cu-Zr nanolaminates are sequentially strained and consolidated, and the amorphization process is followed explicitly. The results are in qualitative agreement with existing experimental data, and provide insight into experimentally inaccessible features of the structural evolution.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 778: Symposium U – Mechanical Properties Derived from Nanostructuring Materials , 2003 , U1.3
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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