Dislocation assisted coarsening of coherent precipitates: a phase field study

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Auteurs principaux: R, Arjun Varma, Pant, Prita, Gururajan, M P
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author R, Arjun Varma
Pant, Prita
Gururajan, M P
author_facet R, Arjun Varma
Pant, Prita
Gururajan, M P
contents Coarsening of precipitates in coherent systems is influenced by the elastic fields of the precipitates and the interfacial curvature. It is also known that if precipitates are connected by dislocations, coarsening is affected by the elastic fields of the dislocations and the pipe diffusivity. Although there is experimental evidence of accelerated coarsening in the presence of dislocations, these studies do not capture the effect of the elastic fields. There exist generic theoretical models that can predict the average sizes and size distributions of coarsening precipitates considering the coherency related elastic stress fields. In this paper, we use a phase field model to study the coarsening of precipitates connected by dislocations, incorporating its elastic fields and pipe diffusivity. Specifically, we study the effects of misfit strain, elastic moduli mismatch, faster pipe mobility and the elastic fields of the dislocation on the morphology and kinetics of the coarsening precipitates. The dilatational component, associated with the edge character of the dislocations interact with the precipitates in an elastically homogeneous system. In an elastically inhomogeneous system, the deviatoric elastic fields also interact with the precipitates influencing the morphology and kinetics of coarsening precipitates. The kinetics of coarsening is different as well, with hard precipitates coarsening faster as compared to soft precipitates, when connected by dislocations. Further, we note that the modified Gibbs-Thomson equation, which was originally derived for an isolated precipitate in an infinite matrix, is also applicable for coarsening precipitates at close proximity.
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spellingShingle Dislocation assisted coarsening of coherent precipitates: a phase field study
R, Arjun Varma
Pant, Prita
Gururajan, M P
Materials Science
Coarsening of precipitates in coherent systems is influenced by the elastic fields of the precipitates and the interfacial curvature. It is also known that if precipitates are connected by dislocations, coarsening is affected by the elastic fields of the dislocations and the pipe diffusivity. Although there is experimental evidence of accelerated coarsening in the presence of dislocations, these studies do not capture the effect of the elastic fields. There exist generic theoretical models that can predict the average sizes and size distributions of coarsening precipitates considering the coherency related elastic stress fields. In this paper, we use a phase field model to study the coarsening of precipitates connected by dislocations, incorporating its elastic fields and pipe diffusivity. Specifically, we study the effects of misfit strain, elastic moduli mismatch, faster pipe mobility and the elastic fields of the dislocation on the morphology and kinetics of the coarsening precipitates. The dilatational component, associated with the edge character of the dislocations interact with the precipitates in an elastically homogeneous system. In an elastically inhomogeneous system, the deviatoric elastic fields also interact with the precipitates influencing the morphology and kinetics of coarsening precipitates. The kinetics of coarsening is different as well, with hard precipitates coarsening faster as compared to soft precipitates, when connected by dislocations. Further, we note that the modified Gibbs-Thomson equation, which was originally derived for an isolated precipitate in an infinite matrix, is also applicable for coarsening precipitates at close proximity.
title Dislocation assisted coarsening of coherent precipitates: a phase field study
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04382