Reinvestigation of the tensile strength and fracture property of Ni(1 1 1)/α-Al2O3(0 0 0 1) interfaces by first-principle calculations |
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| Authors: | Xiancong Guo Fulin Shang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China;2. National Key Laboratory for Nuclear Fuel and Materials, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610041, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies for Comprehensive Utilization of Platinum Metals, Kunming 650106, China;1. School of Automotive Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu 215500, China;2. School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu 215500, China;3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China;4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China;1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, 2 West Wenhua Road, Weihai 264209, China;2. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, China;1. State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi''an Jiaotong University, Xi''an 710049, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Electric Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi''an Jiaotong University, Xi''an 710049, China;3. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi''an Shiyou University, Xi''an 710065, China |
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| Abstract: | First-principle calculations are performed to reinvestigate the mechanical tensile property and failure characteristic of Ni/Al2O3 interfaces, in order to clear the inconsistence existed in the literatures. Four types of interface models without initial lateral stresses are used, i.e., Al-terminated O-site, O-terminated Al-site, Al-terminated Al-site and Al-terminated H-site models. Two kinds of tensile methods, viz., uniaxial extension and uniaxial tension, are adopted to check the mechanical responses of these interface models. It is found that the results under uniaxial extension are generally consistent with those under uniaxial tension, including the overall shapes of stress–strain curves and the values of tensile strengths. Moreover, the initial lateral stresses have an apparent influence on the mechanical properties of the interfaces during the loading process, such as tensile strength, fracture strain and the work of separation. Our simulation results also clarified that, under tensile loading, the most stable O-terminated Al-site interface model tends to fracture in a brittle way along the sublayer between in-plane Ni–Ni atomic bonds, while all of the Al-terminated interface models will fail in a ductile fracture manner with relatively lower stress levels, breaking along the interlayer between the Ni(1) and Al(1) layers. |
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