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Preston, Dean Laverne

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On the temperature and density dependence of dislocation drag from phonon wind

At extreme strain rates, where fast moving dislocations govern plastic deformation, anharmonic phonon scattering imparts a drag force on the dislocations. In this paper, we present calculations of the dislocation drag coefficients of aluminum and copper as functions of temperature and density. We discuss the sensitivity of the drag coefficients to changes in the third-order elastic constants with temperature and density.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

Ab Initio Phase Diagram of Tungsten

The phase diagram of tungsten (W) to a pressure (P) of 2500 GPa is investigated using a comprehensive ab initio approach that includes (i) the calculation of the zero temperature (T) free energies (enthalpies) of different solid structures, (ii) the quantum molecular dynamics simulation of the melting curves of different solid structures, (iii) the derivation of the analytic form for the solid-solid phase transition boundary, and (iv) the simulations of the solidification of liquid W into the final solid states on both sides of the solid-solid phase transition boundary, in order to confirm the corresponding analytic form. There are two solid structures confirmed to be present on the phase diagram of W, the ambient body-centered cubic (bcc) and the high-pressure double hexagonal close-packed (dhcp). At T = 0, the bcc-dhcp transition occurs at 1060 GPa, and the transition boundary has a positive slope dT/dP : the bcc-dhcp-liquid triple point is at (P, T) = (1675 GPa, 23680 K).

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗

Analytic model of the remobilization of pinned glide dislocations: Including dislocation drag from phonon wind

Here, we discuss the effect of a non-constant dislocation drag coefficient on the very high strain rate regime within an analytic model describing mobile-immobile dislocation intersections applicable to fcc polycrystals. Based on previous work on dislocation drag, we estimate its temperature and pressure dependence and its effects on stress–strain rate relations. In the high temperature regime, we show that drag can remain the dominating effect even down to intermediate strain rates. We also discuss the consequences of having a limiting dislocation velocity, a feature which is typically predicted by analytic models of dislocation drag, but which is somewhat under debate because a number of MD simulations predict supersonic dislocations.

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