Issue |
EPL
Volume 95, Number 6, September 2011
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Article Number | 63003 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/95/63003 | |
Published online | 26 August 2011 |
Understanding large plastic deformation of SiC nanowires at room temperature
1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University - Perth, WA 6845, Australia
2
School of Physics and Nuclear Energy Engineering, Beihang University - Beijing 100191, China
3
School of Aeronautics Science and Engineering, Beihang University - Beijing 100191, China
4
State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM), Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Beijing 100190, China
5
Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management (MEEM), City University of Hong Kong - Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
6
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
7
School of Engineering, Brown University - Providence, RI 02912, USA
a
C.Lu@curtin.edu.au
b
bhwangqi@sina.com
Received:
23
June
2011
Accepted:
26
July
2011
Tensile behaviors of SiC [111] nanowires with various possible microstructures have been investigated by molecular-dynamics simulations. The results show that the large plastic deformation in these nanowires is induced by the anti-parallel sliding of 3C grains along an ultra-thin intergranular amorphous film parallel to the plane and inclined at an angle of 19.47○ with respect to the nanowire axis. The resulting large plastic deformation of SiC nanowires at room temperature is attributed to the stretching, breaking and re-forming of Si–C bonds in the intergranular amorphous film, which is also evident from the sawtooth jumps in the stress-strain response.
PACS: 31.15.xv – Molecular dynamics and other numerical methods / 62.25.-g – Mechanical properties of nanoscale systems / 62.23.Hj – Nanowires
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