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- Title
Simulation of Microscopic Fracture Behavior in Nanocomposite Ceramic Tool Materials.
- Authors
Zhou, Tingting; Meng, Lingpeng; Yi, Mingdong; Xu, Chonghai
- Abstract
In this paper, the microstructures of nanocomposite ceramic tool materials are represented through Voronoi tessellation. A cohesive element model is established to perform the crack propagation simulation by introducing cohesive elements with fracture criteria into microstructure models. Both intergranular and transgranular cracking are considered in this work. The influences of nanoparticle size, microstructure type, nanoparticle volume content and interface fracture energy are analyzed, respectively. The simulation results show that the nanoparticles have changed the fracture pattern from intergranular mode in single-phase materials to intergranular–transgranular–mixed mode. It is mainly the nanoparticles along grain boundaries that have an impact on the fracture pattern change in nanocomposite ceramic tool materials. Microstructures with smaller nanoparticles, in which there are more nanoparticles dispersed along matrix grain boundaries, have higher fracture toughness. Microstructures with a nanoparticle volume content of 15% have the most obvious transgranular fracture phenomenon and the highest critical fracture energy release rate. A strong interface is useful for enhancing the fracture toughness of nanocomposite ceramic tool materials.
- Subjects
CERAMIC materials; NANOPARTICLE size; NANOCOMPOSITE materials; CRYSTAL grain boundaries; COHESIVE strength (Mechanics); NANOPARTICLES
- Publication
Lubricants (2075-4442), 2023, Vol 11, Issue 11, p489
- ISSN
2075-4442
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/lubricants11110489