The role of pre-existing heterogeneities in materials under shock and spall

RM Flanagan, SJ Fensin, MA Meyers - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
There has been a challenge for many decades to understand how heterogeneities influence
the behavior of materials under shock loading, eventually leading to spall formation and …

Hydrogen embrittlement of ferritic steels: Observations on deformation microstructure, nanoscale dimples and failure by nanovoiding

T Neeraj, R Srinivasan, J Li - Acta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
While hydrogen embrittlement of ferritic steels has been a subject of significant research,
one of the major challenges in tackling hydrogen embrittlement is that the mechanism of …

Deformation and failure in extreme regimes by high-energy pulsed lasers: a review

TP Remington, BA Remington, EN Hahn… - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The use of high-power pulsed lasers to probe the response of materials at pressures of
hundreds of GPa up to several TPa, time durations of nanoseconds, and strain rates of 10 6 …

Spall strength dependence on grain size and strain rate in tantalum

TP Remington, EN Hahn, S Zhao, R Flanagan… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of grain size on the dynamic failure of tantalum during laser-shock
compression and release and identify a significant effect of grain size on spall strength …

Formation and slip of pyramidal dislocations in hexagonal close-packed magnesium single crystals

Y Tang, JA El-Awady - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Slip of pyramidal< c+ a> dislocations in hexagonal close-packed (hcp) crystals is a requisite
for accommodation of homogeneous c-axis deformation. However, fundamental aspects of …

Plastic deformation in nanoindentation of tantalum: A new mechanism for prismatic loop formation

TP Remington, CJ Ruestes, EM Bringa, BA Remington… - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
The mechanisms of deformation under a nanoindentation in tantalum, chosen as a model
body-centered cubic (bcc) metal, are identified and quantified. Molecular dynamics (MD) …

Towards the ultimate strength of iron: spalling through laser shock

G Righi, CJ Ruestes, CV Stan, SJ Ali, RE Rudd… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The ultimate strength of materials is reached at strain rates approaching the Debye
frequency, when the deformation time at the atomic scale approaches the time for atoms to …

On the ultimate tensile strength of tantalum

EN Hahn, TC Germann, R Ravelo, JE Hammerberg… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Strain rate, temperature, and microstructure play a significant role in the mechanical
response of materials. Using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, we …

Atomistic simulation of tantalum nanoindentation: Effects of indenter diameter, penetration velocity, and interatomic potentials on defect mechanisms and evolution

CJ Ruestes, A Stukowski, Y Tang… - Materials Science and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nanoindentation simulations are a helpful complement to experiments. There is a dearth of
nanoindentation simulations for bcc metals, partly due to the lack of computationally efficient …

Inverse Hall–Petch relationship in nanocrystalline tantalum

Y Tang, EM Bringa, MA Meyers - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2013 - Elsevier
Tantalum polycrystals (grain sizes varying from 2.5 to 30 nm) generated by Voronoi
tessellation were subjected to tension and compression under uniaxial strain loading at …