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Aluminum-based composite material is one of the most important candidate materials in the mechanical industry and aerospace engineering due to its light weight and high strength. Graphene is an ideal reinforcement for composite materials for its excellent mechanical properties. Till-now, the contribution of graphene sheets in the process of crack propagation in composites is not clear. In present work, the effects of graphene size and distribution in graphene/aluminum composites are explored using molecular dynamics simulation methods. It is found that when the length of graphene flake is less than 3.35 nm, the generated sub-cracks in the composite is benefit to the crack propagation. This effect reduces the mechanical properties of composite. When the length of graphene flake is greater than 3.35 nm, graphene sheet impedes the crack propagation and dislocates slip at sub-cracks. In addition, the distribution of graphene flakes angle changes the crack propagation path. Our findings also provide insights into ways to optimize mechanical properties of graphene/aluminum composites.
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Fan B-B, Guo H-H, Li W, Jia Y, Zhang R 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 148101Google Scholar
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Han R Q, Song H Y, An M R, Li W W, Ma J L 2021 Acta Phys. Sin. 70 066201Google Scholar
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图 3 (a) 纯铝在单轴拉伸过程中的裂纹长度-应变曲线; (b)—(d) 为图3(a)中的A-C点CSP原子结构图 (插图中绿色原子为面心立方结构 (FCC), 红色原子为密排六方结构 (HCP), 白色原子为其他结构)
Figure 3. Uniaxial tensile process of pure Al: (a) Crack length-strain curve; (b)–(d) CSP morphology at points A-C correspongding to Fig. 3(a). (Atoms in the inset are colored by the CNA. Green atoms represent face-centered cubic structure (FCC), red atoms represent hexagonal closest packed structure (HCP) and white ones have OTHER structures.)
图 4 (a) p-Gr/Al的单轴拉伸过程裂纹长度-应变曲线; (b)—(e) 为图4(a)中的D-G点CSP原子结构图 (插图中绿色为FCC结构, 红色为HCP结构, 白色为OTHER结构, 黑色为C原子)
Figure 4. (a) Crack length-strain curve of p-Gr/Al under uniaxial tensile; (b)–(e) CSP morphology of p-Gr/Al corresponding to point D-G in Fig. 4(b). (Atoms in the inset are colored by the CNA. Green atoms have an FCC structure, red atoms have an HCP structure, white ones have other structures and black atoms are C atoms.)
图 5 (a) 不同长度石墨烯Gr/Al复合材料的裂纹长度-应变曲线; (b) Gr/Al 复合材料的裂纹比随石墨烯嵌入长度的变化 (插图中A-Gr/Al和B-Gr/Al分别为A-Gr/Al-2和B-Gr/Al-2模型在20%时原子结构图)
Figure 5. (a) Crack length-strain curves of Gr/Al composites with different Gr length; (b) relationship between the crack ratio of Gr/Al composites with different length of graphene (In the inset, A-Gr/Al and B-Gr/Al are atomic structure diagrams of A-Gr/Al-2 and B-Gr/Al-2 models at 20%, respectively).
图 9 (a) B-Gr/Al-1复合材料在δ为1.72—4.96 nm范围内的裂纹长度-应变曲线; (b) δ为3.34 nm的B-Gr/Al-1复合材料位错密度的演化; (c), (d) 对应的d2和d3原子结构图
Figure 9. (a) Crack propagation in the δ range of 1.72—4.96 nm for B-Gr/Al-1; (b) dislocation density evolution in the δ = 3.34 nm for B-Gr/Al-1 composite; (c), (d) corresponding to d2 and d3 atomic structure.
表 1 不同模型的参数, 包括石墨烯长度 (l ) 和石墨烯与裂纹的相对距离 (δ)
Table 1. Parameters of different models including graphene length (l ) and the distance between graphene and crack (δ).
模型名称 l/nm δ/nm 模型名称 l/nm δ/nm Pure Al 0 0 B-Gr/Al-2 5.43 1.72 A-Gr/Al-1 0.97 1.72 B-Gr/Al-3 7.53 1.72 A-Gr/Al-2 1.49 1.72—4.96 B-Gr/Al-4 9.92 1.72 A-Gr/Al-3 2.64 1.72 B-Gr/Al-5 15.22 1.72 A-Gr/Al-4 3.35 1.72 p-Gr/Al 20.25 1.72 B-Gr/Al-1 4.18 1.72—4.96 表 2 原子间Lennard-Jones (L-J)势函数参数值
Table 2. Lennard-Jones (L-J) potential parameter for atomic interactions
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[1] Singh S, Garg M, Batra N K 2015 Tribol. Trans. 58 758Google Scholar
[2] Hu Z, Tong G, Lin D, Chen C, Guo H, Xu J, Zhou L 2016 Mater. Sci. Technol. 32 930
[3] Jayendra B, Sumanth D, Dinesh G, Rao M V 2020 Mater. Today:Proc. 21 1104Google Scholar
[4] Zhang X, Zhao N, He C 2020 Prog. Mater. Sci. 113 100672Google Scholar
[5] Novoselov K S, Fal'ko V I, Colombo L, Gellert P R, Schwab M G, Kim K 2012 Nature 490 192Google Scholar
[6] Dai Z, Hou Y, Sanchez D A, Wang G, Brennan C J, Zhang Z, Liu L, Lu N 2018 Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 266101Google Scholar
[7] Dai Z, Liu L, Zhang Z 2019 Adv. Mater. 31 1805417Google Scholar
[8] 范冰冰, 郭焕焕, 李稳, 贾瑜, 张锐 2013 62 148101Google Scholar
Fan B-B, Guo H-H, Li W, Jia Y, Zhang R 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 148101Google Scholar
[9] Stankovich S, Dikin D A, Dommett G H, Kohlhaas K M, Zimney E J, Stach E A, Piner R D, Nguyen S T, Ruoff R S 2006 Nature 442 282Google Scholar
[10] Zhang P, Ma L, Fan F, Zeng Z, Peng C, Loya P E, Liu Z, Gong Y, Zhang J, Zhang X, Ajayan P M, Zhu T, Lou J 2014 Nat. Commun. 5 3782Google Scholar
[11] Yang Z, Wang D, Lu Z, Hu W 2016 Appl. Phys. Lett. 109 191909Google Scholar
[12] Galashev A Y, Rakhmanova O R 2020 Phys. Lett. A 384 126790Google Scholar
[13] Wegst U G, Bai H, Saiz E, Tomsia A P, Ritchie R O 2015 Nat. Mater. 14 23Google Scholar
[14] Zhang Y, Li X 2017 Nano Lett. 17 6907Google Scholar
[15] Li Z, Guo Q, Li Z, Fan G, Xiong D B, Su Y, Zhang J, Zhang D 2015 Nano Lett. 15 8077Google Scholar
[16] Kim Y, Lee J, Yeom M S, Shin J W, Kim H, Cui Y, Kysar J W, Hone J, Jung Y, Jeon S, Han S M 2013 Nat. Commun. 4 2114Google Scholar
[17] Zhou X, Liu X, Shang J, Yang Q 2020 Mech. Mater. 148 103530Google Scholar
[18] Zhu J Q, Yang Q S, Liu X 2019 Key Eng. Mater. 804 1Google Scholar
[19] Muller S E, Santhapuram R R, Nair A K 2018 Comput. Mater. Sci. 152 341Google Scholar
[20] Su Y, Xu S 2016 Mater. Sci. Eng. , A 678 153Google Scholar
[21] Qiu R Z, Li C C, Fang T H 2017 Phys. Scr. 92 085702Google Scholar
[22] Akbarian S, Dehghani K 2020 Int. J. Fatigue 135 105570Google Scholar
[23] Plimpton S 1995 J. Comput. Phys. 117 1Google Scholar
[24] Wang P, Yang X, Tian X 2015 J. Mater. Res. 30 709Google Scholar
[25] Zhang C, Lu C, Pei L, Li J, Wang R, Tieu K 2019 Carbon 143 125Google Scholar
[26] Daw M S, Baskes M I 1984 Phys. Rev. B 29 6443Google Scholar
[27] Brenner D W, Shenderova O A, Harrison J A, Stuart S J, Ni B, Sinnott S B 2002 J. Phys. Condens. Matter 14 783Google Scholar
[28] Silvestre N, Faria B, Canongia Lopes J N 2014 Compos. Sci. Technol. 90 16Google Scholar
[29] 汉芮岐, 宋海洋, 安敏荣, 李卫卫, 马佳丽 2021 70 066201Google Scholar
Han R Q, Song H Y, An M R, Li W W, Ma J L 2021 Acta Phys. Sin. 70 066201Google Scholar
[30] Kumar S 2018 Mater. Chem. Phys. 208 41Google Scholar
[31] Munilla J, Castro M, Carnicero A 2009 Phys. Rev. B 80 024109Google Scholar
[32] Kutana A, Giapis K P 2006 Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 245501Google Scholar
[33] Stukowski A 2010 Modell. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 18 015012Google Scholar
[34] Kelchner C, Plimpton S, Hamilton J 2000 Phys. Rev. B 58 11085
[35] Faken D, Jónsson H 1994 Comput. Mater. Sci. 2 279Google Scholar
[36] Stukowski A, Bulatov V V, Arsenlis A 2012 Modell. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 20 085007Google Scholar
[37] Zheng Y G, Zhang H W, Chen Z, Lu C, Mai Y W 2009 Phys. Lett. A 373 570Google Scholar
[38] Rong Y, He H P, Zhang L, Li N, Zhu Y C 2018 Comput. Mater. Sci. 153 48Google Scholar
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