Forced Chemical Mixing in Alloys Driven by Plastic Deformation
- 21 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 95 (4), 045901
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.045901
Abstract
Molecular dynamics simulations of forced atomic mixing in crystalline binary alloys during plastic deformation at 100 K are performed. Nearly complete atomic mixing is observed in systems that have a large positive heat mixing and in systems with a large lattice mismatch. Only systems that contained a hard precipitate in a soft matrix do not mix. The amount of mixing is quantified by defining a mean square relative displacement of pairs of atoms, , that were initially separated by a distance . Analysis of and visual inspection of the displacement fields reveal that forced mixing results from dislocation glide, and that it resembles the forced mixing of a substance advected by a turbulent flow. Consideration of also provides a rationalization of compositional self-organization during plastic deformation at higher temperatures.
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