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Tempering the mechanical response of FCC micro-pillars: An Eulerian plasticity approach

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The mechanical response of almost pure single-crystal micro-pillars under compression exhibits a highly localized behavior that can endanger the structural stability of a sample. Recent experiments revealed that the mechanical… Click to show full abstract

The mechanical response of almost pure single-crystal micro-pillars under compression exhibits a highly localized behavior that can endanger the structural stability of a sample. Recent experiments revealed that the mechanical response of a crystal is very sensitive to both the presence of a quenched disorder in the sample and the orientation of the crystal. In this work, we study the influence of disorder and crystal orientation on the large strain response of a 2D FCC crystal with three active glide planes using a very simple Eulerian plasticity model in the FE framework. Our numerical and theoretical results on clean crystal pillars suggest that a single plane or many gliding planes can be activated depending on the crystal orientation. While in the former case, the deformation is localized, leading to ductile rupture, in the latter, a complex interplay between active planes takes place, resulting in a more uniform deformation. The strain-localization can be avoided when inhomogeneities are engineered inside the crystal, or the crystal orientation is altered because of the activation of multiple slip systems, resulting in a "patchwork" of the distribution of the slip systems.

Keywords: crystal; response; mechanical response; eulerian plasticity; micro pillars; response fcc

Journal Title: Mechanics Research Communications
Year Published: 2021

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