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A model revealing grain boundary arrangement-dominated fatigue cracking behavior in nanoscale metallic multilayers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2019

Fei Liang ,
Dong Wang Open the ORCID record for Dong Wang [Opens in a new window] ,
Xi Li ,
Xue-Mei Luo ,
Peter Schaaf  and
Guang-Ping Zhang Open the ORCID record for Guang-Ping Zhang [Opens in a new window]
Fei Liang
Affiliation:
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, P. R. China School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, P. R. China
Dong Wang
Affiliation:
Institute of Materials Engineering and Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies MacroNano®, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany
Xi Li
Affiliation:
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, P. R. China
Xue-Mei Luo
Affiliation:
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, P. R. China
Peter Schaaf
Affiliation:
Institute of Materials Engineering and Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies MacroNano®, TU Ilmenau, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 5, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany
Guang-Ping Zhang*
Affiliation:
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, P. R. China
*
Address all correspondence to Guang-Ping Zhang at gpzhang@imr.ac.cn
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Abstract

In order to reveal the quantitative relationship between fatigue crack deflection path and cross-sectional grain boundary (GB) arrangement of metallic nanolayered composites (NLCs), a stochastic model was established based on the interface-dominant fatigue damage for the ultrafine-scale NLCs. The model indicates that the crack deflection length decreases with decreasing GB arrangement deviation and grain size of constituent layers. The observation and quantitative analysis of fatigue cracking behavior of the Cu/W multilayers with a layer thickness of 5 and 20 nm was conducted to verify the model.

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MRS Communications , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 936 - 940
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2019 

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