On the origin of the anomalous compliance of dealloying-derived nanoporous gold

BND Ngo and B Roschning and K Albe and J Weissmuller and J Markmann, SCRIPTA MATERIALIA, 130, 74-77 (2017).

DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.11.006

The origin of the anomalously compliant behavior of nanoporous gold is studied by comparing the elasticity obtained from molecular dynamics (MD) and finite element method (FEM) simulations. Both models yield a compliance, which is much higher than the predictions of the Gibson- Ashby scaling relation for metal foams and thus confirm the influence of other microstructural features besides the porosity. The linear elastic FEM simulation also yields a substantially stiffer response than the MD simulation, which reveals that nonlinear elastic behavior contributes decisively to the anomalous compliance of nanoporous gold at small structure size. (C) 2016 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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