Dislocation-CNT Interactions in Aluminium at the Atomic Level

2021/08/26 by Nasiri, Samaneh, Zaiser, Michael
#FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.11793

Abstract

The interaction between edge dislocations and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) embedded into an Al matrix is investigated. Both pristine and Ni-coated CNTs are considered. It is demonstrated that the embedded CNTs lead to a flow stress contribution equivalent to that of an array of non-shearable inclusions that are by-passed via the Orowan mechanism. The strain hardening mechanism associated with multiple dislocation passes shows, however, characteristic differences from the Orowan picture that indicate that the embedded CNTs behave analogous to embedded voids.

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