Cooperative roles of stacking fault energies on dislocation nucleation at bimetal interface through tunable potentials

BN Yao and ZR Liu and D Legut and XF Kong and TC Germann and HJ Zhang and RF Zhang, COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, 193, 110416 (2021).

DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110416

By tuning consistent potentials for bimetal system, the cooperative roles of stacking fault energies (SFEs) such as intrinsic SFE (ISFE) and unstable SFE (USFE) on the dislocation nucleation are comprehensively explored. It reveals that the dislocation nucleation at semi-coherent interface is determined by the misfit dislocations, but the critical yield stress depends strongly on the values of ISFE and USFE that are function of external loadings. To account for such relationship, a modified analytical model is proposed based on the nucleation and propagation of double kinks at the interface, showing good agreement with the simulation results. These results not only resolve the previous inconsistency in the role of stacking faults on plastic deformation but shed light on evaluating the atomistic mechanism according to the synergistic effect between stacking faults and loading schemes.

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