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Uniaxial Compression Behavior of Bulk Nano-twinned Gold from Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Chuang Deng and
Frederic Sansoz
Chuang Deng
Affiliation:
cdeng@uvm.edu, University of Vermont, School of Engineering, Burlington, VT, 05482, United States
Frederic Sansoz
Affiliation:
frederic.sansoz@uvm.edu, University of Vermont, School of Engineering, Burlington, VT, 05482, United States
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Abstract

Parallel molecular dynamics simulations were used to study the influence of pre-existing growth twin boundaries on the slip activity of bulk gold under uniaxial compression. The simulations were performed on a 3D, fully periodic simulation box at 300 K with a constant strain rate of 4×107 s−1. Different twin boundary interspacings from 2 nm to 16 nm were investigated. The strength of bulk nano-twinned gold was found to increase as the twin interspacing was decreased. However, strengthening effects related to the twin size were less significant in bulk gold than in gold nanopillars. The atomic analysis of deformation modes at the twin boundary/slip intersection suggested that the mechanisms of interfacial plasticity in nano-twinned gold were different between bulk and nanopillar geometries.

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simulationnanostructureAu

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