Anisotropy, size, and aspect ratio effects on micropillar compression of Al-SiC nanolaminate composites
Abstract
Metal-ceramic nanolaminate composites show promise as high strength and toughness materials. Micropillar compression was used to characterize the mechanical behavior of AlSiC multilayers in different orientations including loading at 0°, 45° and 90° with respect to the direction of the layers. The 0° orientation showed the highest strength while the 45° orientation showed the lowest strength. Each orientation showed unique deformation behavior. Effects of pillar size and aspect ratio were also studied. Higher compressive strengths were observed in smaller pillars for all orientations. This effect was shown to be due to a lower probability of flaws using Weibull statistics. Additionally, changes in the aspect ratio was shown to have no significant effect on the behavior except an increase in the strain to failure in the 0° orientation. In conclusion, finite element analysis (FEA) was used to simulate and understand the effect of these parameters on the deformation behavior.
- Authors:
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- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). Materials Science and Engineering Program
- IMDEA Materials Inst., Madrid (Spain)
- IMDEA Materials Inst., Madrid (Spain); Polytechnic Univ. of Madrid (Spain)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1418521
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1425699
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396; DMR-1209928; AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Acta Materialia
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 114; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6454
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Multilayer; Nanocomposite; Orientation dependence; Finite elements; Weibull analysis
Citation Formats
Mayer, C. R., Yang, L. W., Singh, S. S., Llorca, J., Molina-Aldareguia, J. M., Shen, Y. L., and Chawla, N. Anisotropy, size, and aspect ratio effects on micropillar compression of Al-SiC nanolaminate composites. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2016.05.018.
Mayer, C. R., Yang, L. W., Singh, S. S., Llorca, J., Molina-Aldareguia, J. M., Shen, Y. L., & Chawla, N. Anisotropy, size, and aspect ratio effects on micropillar compression of Al-SiC nanolaminate composites. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.05.018
Mayer, C. R., Yang, L. W., Singh, S. S., Llorca, J., Molina-Aldareguia, J. M., Shen, Y. L., and Chawla, N. Fri .
"Anisotropy, size, and aspect ratio effects on micropillar compression of Al-SiC nanolaminate composites". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.05.018. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1418521.
@article{osti_1418521,
title = {Anisotropy, size, and aspect ratio effects on micropillar compression of Al-SiC nanolaminate composites},
author = {Mayer, C. R. and Yang, L. W. and Singh, S. S. and Llorca, J. and Molina-Aldareguia, J. M. and Shen, Y. L. and Chawla, N.},
abstractNote = {Metal-ceramic nanolaminate composites show promise as high strength and toughness materials. Micropillar compression was used to characterize the mechanical behavior of AlSiC multilayers in different orientations including loading at 0°, 45° and 90° with respect to the direction of the layers. The 0° orientation showed the highest strength while the 45° orientation showed the lowest strength. Each orientation showed unique deformation behavior. Effects of pillar size and aspect ratio were also studied. Higher compressive strengths were observed in smaller pillars for all orientations. This effect was shown to be due to a lower probability of flaws using Weibull statistics. Additionally, changes in the aspect ratio was shown to have no significant effect on the behavior except an increase in the strain to failure in the 0° orientation. In conclusion, finite element analysis (FEA) was used to simulate and understand the effect of these parameters on the deformation behavior.},
doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2016.05.018},
journal = {Acta Materialia},
number = C,
volume = 114,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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