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Multiscale modelling of twinning in tin

Engineering sciences Materials and applications

Abstract

Twinning is a displacive deformation mechanism characterized by a continuous deformation of the material. Although widely studied for other industrial materials such as titanium alloys, this inelastic mechanism remains poorly understood and incompletely modeled for complex crystallographic structures. However, due to the reduced number of symmetries in these structures, dislocation slip is insufficient to accommodate deformation in certain loading directions, requiring the activation of twinning. This is the case for tin, which has a tetragonal structure. In particular, twinning contributes significantly to the mechanical response of tin at high strain rates and low temperatures. At intermediate temperatures and strain rates, a competition between dislocation plasticity and twinning plasticity can occur, making it crucial to describe the coupling between these two phenomena. Proposing a better description of this coupling will shed new light on the experimental data available at CEA DAM. The objective of the thesis is to develop a multiscale approach, from molecular dynamics to continuum mechanics, validated by experiments, to converge on a model that describes the behavior of tin over a wide range of temperatures and strain rates.

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Département physique, expériences et modèles
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