Shocked materials at the intersection of experiment and simulation

Lorenzana, H. E.; Belak, J.; Bradley, K. S.; Bringa, Eduardo M.; Budil, K. S.; Cazamias, J.; El-Dasher, Bassem S.; Hawreliak, J.; Hessler, Jan P.; Kadau, Kai; Kalantar, D. H.; McNaney, J. M.; Milathianaki, Despina; Rosolanková, K.; Swift, Damian; Taravillo, Mercedes; Buuren, T. van; Wark, J. S.; Rubia, T. Dı́az de la

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“…It is well known that microstructure affects the response of a material to dynamic loading as dislocations, stack faults, grain boundaries (GBs) and other heterogeneities can act as defect sites that can promote plastic deformation and phase transformation [1][2][3][4][5]. The behavior of GBs under dynamic mechanical loads is of particular interest as it impacts the bulk properties of polycrystal materials in many respects [2,[6][7].…”

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Twin boundary activated α → ω phase transformation in titanium under shock compression

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The role of grain boundary structures on the shock response of hexagonal-closepacked (hcp) metals is little understood. We use molecular dynamics simulations to investigate deformation mechanisms in shock compressed Ti bicrystals with three types of grain boundary (GB) microstructure. Our results show the shock response of phase Ti polycrystals are influenced by the GB characteristics, i.e., elastic shock wave induced inelastic deformation occurs on both sides of the {1012} coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) but only on one-side of the symmetric incoherent twin boundaries (ITB) or {1210} tilt grain boundaries regions. In particular, we find that the elastic shock wave can readily trigger the α→ω transformation at {1012} CTBs but not the other two GBs, and the α→ω transformation at CTBs leads to considerable wave attenuation (i.e., the elastic precursor decay). Combined with first principle calculations, we find that CTBs can facilitate the overcoming of the energy barrier for the α→ω transformation. Our findings have the potential to influence interface engineering and materials design under extreme conditions.

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