Fracture toughness estimation of advaced ceramics materials by moleculardynamics methods
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Abstract
Molecular dynamics simulation has been widely used for the research about the fracture behavior of brittle materials.The ceramics of alpha-alumina can also be explored based on this method for the atomic deformation changes under specific loadings.The alumina structures are constructed and validated with theoretical atomic structures first by some typical parameters such as the lattice parameters, and then the validated potential for this material is shown with some material constant such as Young's modulus, shear modulus and bulk modulus which are from experimental and simulation results.The stress intensity factor of the material is an important parameter to determine the fracture behavior for brittle materials which will be calculated in this paper under the typical loading conditions according to the fracture mechanics.The fracture surface energy of the single-crystal alumina models is also calculated and then used for the calculation of the fracture toughness (KIC) for comparison with the simulation results from theoretical equations and the experimental data.Along this routine, the ultimate fracture strength has been found to be increasing from 44.2 2.6 GPa to 49.5 3.1 GPa with the increase of tension loading rates from 10 9 /s to 10 11 /s along X-[100] crystal direction, and fracture toughness of alpha-alumina atomic models has been found to be decreasing from 4.22 0.16 MPa(m^1/2) to 3.26 0.18 MPa(m^1/2) with the increasing tension loading rate from 10 9 /s to 10 11 /s.Other parameters such as stiffness have the similar trends with the fracture strength and fracture toughness.These typical parameters of fracture trends of alpha-alumina models have been explored under the changes of tension loading rate, which can help bridge the microscale modelling of brittle material with the higher-scale experiments.
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