| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
TMS Specialty Congress 2025
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| Symposium
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8th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME 2025)
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| Presentation Title |
An Integrated Experimental and Computational Study on the Role of Material Interfaces in Mediating Plastic Flow in Amorphous/Crystalline Composites |
| Author(s) |
Ashraf Bastawros, Amir Abdelmawla, Liming Xiong |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Ashraf Bastawros |
| Abstract Scope |
In this work, we study the deformation behavior in amorphous/crystalline metallic composites (A/C-MCs) through nanoindentation experiments and molecular dynamic (MD) simulations. The atomic deformation processes in both crystalline (C-) and amorphous (A-) phases near the amorphous-crystalline interface (ACI) are investigated and correlated with the material’s overall constitutive behavior at the microscale. Our major findings are (i) the ACIs enable a co-deformation of the A- and C-phases through “stiffening” the soft phases but “softening” the stiff phases in A/C-MCs through different micro-mechanisms; (ii) there exists an ACI-induced transition zone with a thickness of ~ 10 nm; (iii) the strong coupling between shear transformation zones (STZs) and dislocations can be quantified through carefully designed indentation experiments and simulations; and (iv) the nanoscale MD-simulation-predicted mechanisms can be mapped to the “pop-in” or “excursion” events on the force–indentation depth curves extracted from microscale experiments, although there is a length-scale gap in between. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Undecided |