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Scale effect and geometric shapes of grains

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  • Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University,Shanghai 200072, P. R. China

Received date: 2006-07-10

  Revised date: 2006-12-07

  Online published: 2007-02-18

Abstract

The rule-of-mixture approach has become one of the widely spread ways to investigate the mechanical properties of nano-materials and nano-structures, and it is very important for the simulation results to exactly compute phase volume fractions. The nanocrystalline (NC) materials are treated as three-phase composites consisting of grain core phase, grain boundary (GB) phase and triple junction phase, and a two-dimensional three-phase mixture regular polygon model is established to investigate the scale effect of mechanical properties of NC materials due to the geometrical polyhedron characteristics of crystal grain. For different multi-sided geometrical shapes of grains, the corresponding regular polygon model is adopted to obtain more precise phase volume fractions and exactly predict the mechanical properties of NC materials.

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GUO Hui;GUO Xing-ming . Scale effect and geometric shapes of grains[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2007 , 28(2) : 141 -149 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-007-0201-1

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