Rate dependent rheological stress-strain behavior of porous nanocrystalline materials

Abstract

To completely understand the rate-dependent stress-strain behavior of the porous nanocrystalline materials, it is necessary to formulate a constitutive model that can reflect the complicated experimentally observed stress-strain relations of nanocrystalline materials. The nanocrystalline materials consisting grain interior and grain boundary are considered as viscoplastic and porous materials for the reasons that their mechanical deformation is commonly governed by both dislocation glide and diffusion, and pores commonly exist in the nanocrystalline materials. A constitutive law of the unified theory reflecting the stress-strain relations was established and verified by experimental data of bulk nanocrystalline Ni prepared by hydrogen direct current arc plasma evaporation method and hot compression. The effect of the evolution of porosity on stress-strain relations was taken into account to make that the predicted results can keep good agreements with the corresponding experimental results.

Keywords

stress-strain / porous / nanocrystalline materials / rate dependent / porosity

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