Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron

Radiation response of a material is a consequence of defects’ evolution in any radiation damage event. The radiation-induced defects can significantly alter the mechanical properties of a material. Radiation damage initiates from incident neutron by bombardment on solid material causing production a...

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Main Authors: M. Mustafa Azeem, Wang, Qingyu, Muhammad Zubair
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
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spelling ukm-143572020-03-03T08:09:41Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14357/ Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron M. Mustafa Azeem, Wang, Qingyu Muhammad Zubair, Radiation response of a material is a consequence of defects’ evolution in any radiation damage event. The radiation-induced defects can significantly alter the mechanical properties of a material. Radiation damage initiates from incident neutron by bombardment on solid material causing production and evolution of Frenkel defects. Since voids are formed due to aggregation of a large number of vacancies that cause dimensional changes and hence irradiation-induced swelling. In order to characterize the effect of irradiation defects, we have performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate nanoindentation response of point defects and voids in Fe and their effects on mechanical parameters. The radial effect of voids and their interaction mechanism is also explored by nanoindentation simulation. It has been found that most of the dislocation produced are <111> and <100> during nanoindentation in all simulated models. There will be an increase in dislocation density which will harden the material and reduce its toughness. The mechanical parameters such as hardness H and reduced elastic modulus Er of irradiation defects are calculated from P-h curves. It is found that both H & Er of the point defects and voids are lower than the perfect model. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14357/1/24%20M.%20Mustafa%20Azeem.pdf M. Mustafa Azeem, and Wang, Qingyu and Muhammad Zubair, (2019) Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron. Sains Malaysiana, 48 (9). pp. 2029-2039. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/malay_journals/jilid48bil9_2019/KandunganJilid48Bil9_2019.html
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description Radiation response of a material is a consequence of defects’ evolution in any radiation damage event. The radiation-induced defects can significantly alter the mechanical properties of a material. Radiation damage initiates from incident neutron by bombardment on solid material causing production and evolution of Frenkel defects. Since voids are formed due to aggregation of a large number of vacancies that cause dimensional changes and hence irradiation-induced swelling. In order to characterize the effect of irradiation defects, we have performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate nanoindentation response of point defects and voids in Fe and their effects on mechanical parameters. The radial effect of voids and their interaction mechanism is also explored by nanoindentation simulation. It has been found that most of the dislocation produced are <111> and <100> during nanoindentation in all simulated models. There will be an increase in dislocation density which will harden the material and reduce its toughness. The mechanical parameters such as hardness H and reduced elastic modulus Er of irradiation defects are calculated from P-h curves. It is found that both H & Er of the point defects and voids are lower than the perfect model.
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author M. Mustafa Azeem,
Wang, Qingyu
Muhammad Zubair,
spellingShingle M. Mustafa Azeem,
Wang, Qingyu
Muhammad Zubair,
Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron
author_facet M. Mustafa Azeem,
Wang, Qingyu
Muhammad Zubair,
author_sort M. Mustafa Azeem,
title Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron
title_short Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron
title_full Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron
title_fullStr Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron
title_full_unstemmed Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in Iron
title_sort atomistic simulations of nanoindentation response of irradiation defects in iron
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2019
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14357/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14357/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14357/1/24%20M.%20Mustafa%20Azeem.pdf
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