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Alan Cocks' KEYNOTE seminar "Modelling Creep Deformation of Engineering Alloys at Different Scales"

Tid: To 2021-04-15 kl 16.15 - 17.45

Plats: zoom

Medverkande: Alan Cocks, University of Oxford, UK

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Abstract. In recent years there has been significant interest in the UK in the development of improved models of creep deformation and failure of engineering alloys, driven by the desire to extend the life of the UK fleet of AGR nuclear reactors. Due to recent decisions about the future of these reactors, this need is less pronounced, but important results have emerged from this research that are relevant to a wide range of engineering materials. In this talk, I will focus on modelling the plastic and creep deformation of engineering materials. The talk is divided into two parts. Initially, I will describe a physically based crystal plasticity/creep model embedded within a self consistent scheme that takes into account: the effect of dislocation structures, precipitates and solute atoms on hardening and recovery; and the role of internal residual stress states at different scales [1-2]. The model has a small number of material parameters that can be calibrated using 5 simple material tests. It will be demonstrated how the resulting model captures the material response under complex loading cycles typical of those experienced in AGR components [3]. The above fundamental crystal based models are relatively simple. An area where further development is required is in the way in which dislocations interact with particles. I explore this in the second part of the talk where I describe a discrete dislocation plasticity (DDP) formalism that models dislocation glide, cross slip and climb facilitated by diffusion along the cores of the dislocations (the dominant kinetic process at the temperature of interest) [4-6]. I will demonstrate how the balance between these processes and the detailed way in which dislocations bypass particles and influences the development of dislocation structures changes with stress [6]. I will also present models for the mobility and interaction of prismatic dislocation loops – that is important for the study of irradiated materials.

References

  1. J. Hu and A.C.F. Cocks, Int Jnl Solids Structures, 2016, 78, 21-37.
  2. M. Petkov, J. Hu and A.C.F. Cocks, Phil Mag, 2019, 99, 789-834.
  3. M. Petkov, M. Chevalier, D. Dean and A.C.F. Cocks, to appear.
  4. F.X. Liu, E. Tarleton and A.C.F. Cocks, Jnl Mech Phys Solids, 2020, 135, 103783.
  5. F.X. Liu, A.C.F. Cocks, S.P.A. Gill and E. Tarleton, Mod Sim Mat Sci Eng, 2020, 28, 055012.
  6. F.X. Liu, A.C.F. Cocks and E. Tarleton, to appear.
Tillhör: Institutionen för Teknisk Mekanik
Senast ändrad: 2021-03-31