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MSE 209: Introduction to the Science and Engineering of Materials Instructor: Leonid Zhigilei Office: Materials Science Building 227 Spring 2001 MSE 209 - Section 6 Instructor: Leonid Zhigilei Tuesday, Thursday, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Olsson Hall 005 Class web page: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~lz2n/mse209/ Class e-mail list: MSE209-6@toolkit.virginia.edu Graduate Teaching Assistants: E-mail eemr aisha cts2v hw2e 982-5689 982-5689
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Office Hours: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Monday, Friday & open Telephone: (804) 243 3582 E-mail: lz2n@virginia.edu
Homework: 11 problem sets will be will be assigned and will be due at the beginning of class one week after assignment. Homework solutions should be neat and stapled. Homework does not require the pledge and cooperation among students is permitted.
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Textbook:
W. D. Callister, Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (John Wiley 1999, 5th edition)
Beginning of the Material Science - People began to make tools from stone Start of the Stone Age about two million years ago. Natural materials: stone, wood, clay, skins, etc. Advanced materials
Properties of materials (mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical) Different levels of structure in materials (atomic, microscopic, macroscopic) Relation among material processing, structure, properties, and performance
Performance
Classification of Materials
Metals, Ceramics, Polymers, Semiconductors
The Stone Age ended about 5000 years ago with introduction of Bronze in the Far East. Bronze is an alloy (a metal made up of more than one element), copper + < 25% of tin + other elements. Bronze: can be hammered or cast into a variety of shapes, can be made harder by alloying, corrode only slowly after a surface oxide film forms.
Advanced Materials
Electronic materials, superconductors, etc.
The main objective is to understand the basic concepts and language of Materials Science
The Iron Age began about 3000 years ago and continues today. Use of iron and steel, a stronger and cheaper material changed drastically daily life of a common person.
Age of Advanced materials: throughout the Iron Age many new types of materials have been introduced (ceramic, semiconductors, polymers, composites). Understanding of the relationship among structure, properties, processing, and performance of materials. Intelligent design of new materials.
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A better understanding of structure-compositionproperties relations has lead to a remarkable progress in properties of materials. Example is the dramatic What is Materials Science and Engineering ?
progress in the strength to density ratio of materials, that resulted in a wide variety of new products, from dental materials to tennis racquets.
Structure
Electronic structure of individual atoms that defines interaction among atoms (interatomic bonding).
Arrangement of atoms in materials (for the same atoms can have different properties, e.g. two forms of carbon: graphite and diamond)
Structure Observational
Properties
Macroscopic structure
Length and Time Scales from the point of view of Materials Modeling.
Things Natural
Things Manmade
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Length-scales Angstrom = 1 = 1/10,000,000,000 meter = 10-10 m Nanometer = 10 nm = 1/1,000,000,000 meter = 10-9 m Micrometer = 1m = 1/1,000,000 meter = 10-6 m Millimeter = 1mm = 1/1,000 meter = 10-3 m
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The 21st century challenge -- Fashion materials at the nanoscale with desired properties and functionali ty
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Properties
Properties are the way the material responds to the environment and external forces. Mechanical properties response to mechanical forces, strength, etc. Electrical and magnetic properties - response electrical and magnetic fields, conductivity, etc. Thermal properties are related to transmission of heat and heat capacity. Optical properties include to absorption, transmission and scattering of light. Chemical stability in contact with the environment corrosion resistance. Semiconductors: the bonding is covalent (electrons are shared between atoms). Their electrical properties depend strongly on minute proportions of contaminants. Examples: Si, Ge, GaAs. Ceramics: atoms behave like either positive or negative ions, and are bound by Coulomb forces. They are usually combinations of metals or semiconductors with oxygen, nitrogen or carbon (oxides, nitrides, and carbides). Hard, brittle, insulators. Examples: glass, porcelain. Polymers: are bound by covalent forces and also by weak van der Waals forces, and usually based on C and H. They decompose at moderate temperatures (100 400 C), and are lightweight. Examples: plastics rubber. Metals: valence electrons are detached from atoms, and spread in an 'electron sea' that "glues" the ions together. Strong, ductile, conduct electricity and heat well, are shiny if polished. Let us classify materials according to the way the atoms are bound together (Chapter 2).
Types of Materials
Metals
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Ceramics
Composites Polymers
Examples of ceramic materials ranging from household to high performance combustion engines which utilize both metals and ceramics.
Polymer composite materials: reinforcing glass fibers in a polymer matrix. Polymers include Plastics and rubber materials
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Material Selection
Superplastic deformation involves low-stress sliding along grain boundaries, a complex process of which material scientists have limited knowledge and that is a subject of current investigations.
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Material Selection
Design of materials having specific desired characteristics directly from our knowledge of atomic structure.
Composition
Miniaturization:Nanostructured" materials, with microstructure that has length scales between 1 and 100 nanometerswithunusualproperties.Electronic components, materials for quantum computing.
Bonding
Crystal Structure
Smart materials: airplane wings that deice themselves, buildings that stabilize themselves in earthquakes
Environment-friendly materials: biodegradable or photodegradable plastics, advances in nuclear waste processing, etc.
Thermomechanical Processing
Learning from Nature: shells and biological hard tissue can be as strong as the most advanced laboratory-produced ceramics, mollusces produce biocompatible adhesives that we do not know how to reproduce
Microstructure
Materials for lightweight batteries with high storage densities, for turbine blades that can operate at 2500C, room-temperature superconductors? chemical sensors (artificial nose) of extremely high sensitivity, cotton shirts that never require ironing
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Chapter Outline Review of Atomic Structure Electrons, Protons, Neutrons, Quantum mechanics of atoms, Electron states, The Periodic Table
Charges: Electrons and protons have negative and positive charges of the same magnitude, 1.6 10-19 Coulombs. Neutrons are electrically neutral. Atoms = nucleus (protons and neutrons) + electrons
The atomic mass unit (amu) is often used to express atomic weight. 1 amu is defined as 1/12 of the atomic mass of the most common isotope of carbon atom that has 6 protons (Z=6) and six neutrons (N=6).
The atomic weight of an element = weighted average of the atomic masses of the atoms naturally occurring isotopes. Atomic weight of carbon is 12.011 amu.
The atomic mass (A) = mass of protons + mass of neutrons # protons gives chemical identification of the element # protons = atomic number (Z) # neutrons defines isotope number
A mole is the amount of matter that has a mass in grams equal to the atomic mass in amu of the atoms (A mole of carbon has a mass of 12 grams).
Molecules and Molecular Solids Understanding of interatomic bonding is the first step towards understanding/explaining materials properties
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The number of atoms in a mole is called the Avogadro number, Nav = 6.023 1023. Nav = 1 gram/1 amu.
Pauli Exclusion Principle: only one electron can have a given set of the four quantum numbers.
This picture looks like a mini planetary system.But quantum mechanics tells us that this analogy is not correct:
The Number of Available Electron States in Some of the Electron Shells and Subshells
Principal Q. N., n 1 (l=0) 2 (l=0) 2 (l=1) 3 (l=0) 3 (l=1) 3 (l=2) 4 (l=0) 4 (l=1) 4 (l=2) 4 (l=3) Subshells s s p s p d s p d f
Electrons move not in circular orbits, but in 'fuzzy orbits. Actually, we cannot tell how it moves, but only can say what is the probability of finding it at some distance from the nucleus. Only certain orbits or shells of electron probability densities are allowed. The shells are identified by a principal quantum number n, which can be related to the size of the shell, n = 1 is the smallest; n = 2, 3 .. are larger. The second quantum number l, defines subshells within each shell. Two more quantum numbers characterize states within the subshells.
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Periodic Table
Electrons that occupy the outermost filled shell the valence electrons they are responsible for bonding. Electrons fill quantum levels in order of increasing energy (only n, l make a significant difference). Example: Iron, Z = 26: 1s22s22p63s23p63d64s2
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Elements in the same column (Elemental Group) share similar properties. Group number indicates the number of electrons available for bonding.
0: Inert gases (He, Ne, Ar...) have filled subshells: chem. inactive IA: Alkali metals (Li, Na, K) have one electron in outermost occupied s subshell - eager to give up electron chem. active VIIA: Halogens (F, Br, Cl...) missing one electron in outermost occupied p shell - want to gain electron - chem. active
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Subshells with one electron - low electronegativity Subshells with one missing electron -high electronegativity
Metals are electropositive they can give up their few valence electrons to become positively charged ions
The electron volt (eV) energy unit convenient for description of atomic bonding
Ut=Ur+Ua
Electron volt - the energy lost / gained by an electron when it is taken through a potential difference of one volt.
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E0 bond energy F= dE/da a0 equilibrium distance at a0, dE/da = 0, Fa = Fr
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equilibrium This is typical potential well for two interacting atoms The repulsion between atoms, when they are brought close to each other, is related to the Pauli principle: when the electronic clouds surrounding the atoms starts to overlap, the energy of the system increases abruptly. The origin of the attractive part, dominating at large distances, depends on the particular type of bonding.
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Tensile (+)
1 eV = 1.6 x 10-19 J
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Compressive (-)
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Types of Bonding
Primary bonding: e- are transferred or shared Strong (100-1000 KJ/mol or 1-10 eV/atom) Formation of ionic bond: 1. Mutual ionization occurs by electron transfer (remember electronegativity table) Ion = charged atom Anion = negatively charged atom Cation = positively charged atom
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Ionic: Strong Coulomb interaction among negative atoms (have an extra electron each) and positive atoms (lost an electron). Example - Na+ClCovalent: electrons are shared between the molecules, to saturate the valency. Example - H2 Metallic: the atoms are ionized, loosing some electrons from the valence band. Those electrons form a electron sea, which binds the charged nuclei in place Secondary Bonding: no e- transferred or shared Interaction of atomic/molecular dipoles Weak (< 100 KJ/mol or < 1 eV/atom) 11 Protons Na 1S2 2S2 2P6 3S1 11 Protons Na+ 1S2 2S2 2P6 Fluctuating Induced Dipole (inert gases, H2, Cl2) Permanent dipole bonds (polar molecules - H2O, HCl...) Polar molecule-induced dipole bonds (a polar molecule
like induce a dipole in a nearby nonpolar atom/molecule)
Electron transfer reduces the energy of the system of atoms, that is, electron transfer is energetically favorable
2. Ions are attracted by strong coulombic interaction Oppositely charged atoms attract An ionic bond is non-directional (ions may be attracted to one another in any direction Example: NaCl Na has 11 electrons, 1 more than needed for a full outer shell (Neon) donates e10 e- left
Cl has 17 electron, 1 less than needed for a full outer shell (Argon) 17 Protons Cl 1S2 2S2 2P6 3S2 3P5 17 Protons Cl- 1S2 2S2 2P6 3S2 3P6 receives e18 e14
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ethylene molecule: Formation of covalent bonds: Cooperative sharing of valence electrons Can be described by orbital overlap Covalent bonds are HIGHLY directional Bonds - in the direction of the greatest orbital overlap ethylene mer Covalent bond model: an atom can covalently bond with at most 8-N, N = number of valence electrons Example: Cl2 molecule. ZCl =17 (1S2 2S2 2P6 3S2 3P5) N = 7, 8 - N = 1 can form only one covalent bond polyethylene molecule:
diamond: (each C atom has four covalent bonds with four other carbon atoms)
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Chapter Outline How do atoms arrange themselves to form solids? Fundamental concepts and language Unit cells Crystal structures Face-centered cubic Body-centered cubic Hexagonal close-packed Close packed crystal structures Density computations Types of solids Single crystal Polycrystalline Amorphous
Single crystal: atoms are in a repeating or periodic array over the entire extent of the material Polycrystalline material: crystals or grains comprised of many small Amorphous: lacks a systematic atomic arrangement Crystalline material: atoms self-organize in a periodic array
Types of Solids
Crystal structure
To discuss crystalline structures it is useful to consider atoms as being hard spheres with well-defined radii. In this hard-sphere model, the shortest distance between two like atoms is one diameter.
Crystalline
Amorphous
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Unit Cell
The unit cell is the smallest structural unit or building block that can describe the the crystal structure. Repetition of the unit cell generates the entire crystal.
Atoms are located at each of the corners and on the centers of all the faces of cubic unit cell Cu, Al, Ag, Au have this crystal structure
Example: 2D honeycomb net can be represented by translation of two adjacent atoms that form a unit cell for this 2D crystalline structure
Two representations of the FCC unit cell Different choices of unit cells possible, generally choose parallelepiped unit cell with highest level of symmetry
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Atom at each corner and at center of cubic unit cell Cr, , Mo have this crystal structure
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FCC can be represented by a stack of close-packed planes (planes with highest density of atoms)
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The hard spheres or ion cores touch one another across a face diagonal the cube edge length, a= 2R2 The coordination number, CN = the number of closest neighbors to which an atom is bonded = number of touching atoms, CN = 12 Number of atoms per unit cell, n = 4. (For an atom that is shared with m adjacent unit cells, we only count a fraction of the atom, 1/m). In FCC unit cell we have:
6 face atoms shared by two cells: 6 x 1/2 = 3 8 corner atoms shared by eight cells: 8 x 1/8 = 1
Atomic packing factor, APF = fraction of volume occupied by hard spheres = (Sum of atomic volumes)/(Volume of cell) = 0.74 (maximum possible)
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Unit cell has two lattice parameters a and c. Ideal ratio c/a = 1.633
Number of atoms per unit cell, n = 6. 3 mid-plane atoms shared by no other cells: 3 x 1 = 3
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The hard spheres touch one another along cube diagonal the cube edge length, a= 4R/3 The coordination number, CN = 8 Number of atoms per unit cell, n = 2 Center atom (1) shared by no other cells: 1 x 1 = 1 8 corner atoms shared by eight cells: 8 x 1/8 = 1 Atomic packing factor, APF = 0.68 Corner and center atoms are equivalent
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Third plane is placed above the holes of the first plane not covered by the second plane
Third plane is placed directly above the first plane of atoms HCP: ABABAB...
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FCC: ABCABCABC
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Density Computations
Since the entire crystal can be generated by the repetition of the unit cell, the density of a crystalline material, = the density of the unit cell = (atoms in the unit cell, n ) (mass of an atom, M) / (the volume of the cell, Vc) Atoms in the unit cell, n = 2 (BCC); 4 (FCC); 6 (HCP) Mass of an atom, M = Atomic weight, A, in amu (or g/mol) is given in the periodic table. To translate mass from amu to grams we have to divide the atomic weight in amu by the Avogadro number NA = 6.023 1023 atoms/mol The volume of the cell, Vc = a3 (FCC and BCC) a = 2R2 (FCC); a = 4R/3 (BCC) where R is the atomic radius Thus, the formula for the density is:
Single crystal: atoms are in a repeating or periodic array over the entire extent of the material
Polycrystalline material: comprised of many small crystals or grains.The grains have different crystallographic orientation. There exist atomic mismatch within the regions where grains meet. These regions are called grain boundaries.
nA = Vc N A
Atomic weight and atomic radius of many elements you can find in the table at the back of the textbook front cover.
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Pure, solid carbon occurs in three crystalline forms diamond, graphite; and large, hollow fullerenes. Two kinds of fullerenes are shown here: buckminsterfullerene (buckyball) and carbon nanotube.
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Grain Boundary
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Polycrystalline Materials
Polycrystalline Materials
Anisotropy
Different directions in a crystal have a different packing. For instance, atoms along the edge of FCC unit cell are more separated than along the face diagonal. This causes anisotropy in the properties of crystals, for instance, the deformation depends on the direction in which a stress is applied.
In some polycrystalline materials, grain orientations are random, so bulk material properties are isotropic
Some polycrystalline materials have grains with preferred orientations (texture), so properties are dominated by those relevant to the texture orientation and the material exhibits anisotropic properties
Atomistic model of a nanocrystalline solid by Mo Li, JHU Simulation of annealing of a polycrystalline grain structure
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Summary
Make sure you understand language and concepts: Allotropy Amorphous Anisotropy Atomic packing factor (APF) Body-centered cubic (BCC) Coordination number Crystal structure Crystalline Face-centered cubic (FCC) Grain Grain boundary Hexagonal close-packed (HCP) Isotropic Lattice parameter Non-crystalline Polycrystalline Polymorphism Single crystal Unit cell
Chapter 4: Imperfections in Solids Point defects (vacancies, interstitials) Dislocations (edge, screw) Grain boundaries (tilt, twist) Weight and atomic composition
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Chapter Outline Crystals are like people, it is the defects in them which tend to make them interesting! - Colin Humphreys. Defects Introduction (I)
Real crystals are never perfect, there are always defects
Defects in Solids
0D, Point defects vacancies interstitials impurities, weight and atomic composition
1D, Dislocations edge screw 2D, Grain boundaries tilt twist 3D, Bulk or Volume defects Atomic vibrations 4.9 - 4.10 Microscopy & Grain size determination Not Covered / Not Tested
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Properties
Types of Defects
Defects may be classified into four categories depending on their dimension: 0D, Point defects: atoms missing or in irregular places in the lattice (vacancies, interstitials, impurities)
Composition
Bonding
Crystal Structure
1D, Linear defects: groups of atoms in irregular positions (e.g. screw and edge dislocations) 2D, Planar defects: the interfaces between homogeneous regions of the material (grain boundaries, external surfaces)
Self-interstitials
Vacancy
Thermomechanical Processing
defects introduction
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Microstructure
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Interstitial - an atom that occupies a place outside the normal lattice position. It may be the same type of atom as the others (self interstitial) or an impurity interstitial atom.
Qv N v = N s exp k BT
where Ns is the number of regular lattice sites, kB is the Boltzmann constant, Qv is the energy needed to form a vacant lattice site in a perfect crystal, and T the temperature in Kelvin (note, not in oC or oF).
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Schematic representation of different point defects: (1) vacancy; (2) self-interstitial; (3) interstitial impurity; (4,5) substitutional impurities
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Using this equation we can estimate that at room temperature in copper there is one vacancy per 1015 lattice atoms, whereas at high temperature, just below the melting point there is one vacancy for every 10,000 atoms.
The arrows show the local stresses introduced by the point defects.
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Self-interstitials
Self-interstitials in metals introduce large distortions in the surrounding lattice the energy of self-interstitial formation is ~ 3 times larger as compared to vacancies (Qi ~ 3Qv) equilibrium concentration of self-interstitials is very low (less than one self-interstitial per cm3 at room T).
Solid Solutions Solid solutions are made of a host (the solvent or matrix) which dissolves the minor component (solute). The ability to dissolve is called solubility. Solvent: in an alloy, the element or compound present in greater amount Solute: in an alloy, the element or compound present in lesser amount Solid Solution: homogeneous maintain crystal structure containrandomlydispersedimpurities (substitutional or interstitial)
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Alloys - deliberate mixtures of metals Example: sterling silver is 92.5% silver 7.5% copper alloy. Stronger than pure silver.
Second Phase: as solute atoms are added, new compounds / structures are formed, or solute forms local precipitates (discussed in Chapter 9)
Whether the addition of impurities results in formation of solid solution or second phase depends the nature of the impurities, their concentration and temperature, pressure
Factors for high solubility: Atomic size factor - atoms need to fit solute and solvent atomic radii should be within ~ 15% Crystal structures of solute and solvent should be the same Electronegativities of solute and solvent should be comparable (otherwise new inter-metallic phases are encouraged) Generally more solute goes into solution when it has higher valency than solvent
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Composition / Concentration
Composition Conversions
Weight % to Atomic %:
Interstitial solid solution of C in . The C atom is small enough to fit, after introducing some strain into the BCC lattice.
m1 C1 = 100 m1 + m 2
Atom percent (at %): number of moles (atoms) of a particular element relative to the total number of moles (atoms) in alloy.For two-component system, concentration of element 1 in at. % is
Atomic % to Weight %:
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C1A1 + C 2 A 2
n m1 ' C1 = 100 n m1 + n m 2
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DislocationsLinear Defects
Dislocations are linear defects: the interatomic bonds are significantly distorted only in the immediate vicinity of the dislocation line. This area is called the dislocation core. Dislocations also create small elastic deformations of the lattice at large distances.
Dislocations shown in previous slide are edge dislocations, have Burgers vector directed perpendicular to the dislocation line.
There is a second basic type of dislocation, called screw dislocation. The screw dislocation is parallel to the direction in which the crystal is being displaced (Burgers vector is parallel to the dislocation line).
Dislocations are very important in mechanical properties of material (Chapters 6, 7, 8). Introduction/discovery of dislocations in 1934 by Taylor, Orowan and Polyani marked the beginning of our understanding of mechanical properties of materials.
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Dislocations shown above have Burgers vector directed perpendicular to the dislocation line. These dislocations are called edge dislocations.
Find the Burgers vector of a screw dislocation. How a screw dislocation got its name?
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Interfacial Defects
Depending on misalignments of atomic planes between adjacent grains we can distinguish between the low and high angle grain boundaries
Surface areas tend to minimize (e.g. liquid drop) Solid surfaces can reconstruct to satisfy atomic bonds at surfaces.
Grain Boundaries Polycrystalline material comprised of many small crystals or grains.The grains have different crystallographic orientation. There exist atomic mismatch within the regions where grains meet. These regions are called grain boundaries.
To add to the complexity of real defect structures, dislocation are often split in "partial dislocations that have their cores spread out over a larger area.
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Surfaces and interfaces are reactive and impurities tend to segregate there. Since energy is associated with interfaces, grains tend to grow in size at the expense of smaller grains to minimize energy. This occurs by diffusion (Chapter 5), which is accelerated at high temperatures.
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Transmission electron microscope image of a small angle tilt boundary in Si. The red lines mark the edge dislocations, the blue lines indicate the tilt angle
Dislocations in Nickel (the dark lines and loops), transmission electron microscopy image, Manchester Materials Science Center.
Twist boundary - the boundary region consisting of arrays of screw dislocations (consider joint of two halves of a cube and twist an angle around the cross section normal)
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High-resolution Transmission Electron Microscope image of a tilt grain boundary in aluminum, Sandia National Lab.
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Summary Bulk or Volume Defects Pores - can greatly affect optical, thermal, mechanical properties
Heat causes atoms to vibrate Vibration amplitude increases with temperature Melting occurs when vibrations are sufficient to rupture bonds
Atomic Vibrations
Cracks - can greatly affect mechanical properties Foreign inclusions - can greatly affect electrical, mechanical, optical properties
Vibrational frequency ~ 1013 Hz Average atomic energy due to thermal excitation is of order kT A cluster of microcracks in a melanin granule irradiated by a short laser pulse. Computer simulation by L. V. Zhigilei and B. J. Garrison.
Alloy Atom percent Atomic vibration Boltzmanns constant Burgers vector Composition Dislocation line Edge dislocation Grain size Imperfection Interstitial solid solution Microstructure Point defect Screw dislocation Self-Interstitial Solid solution Solute Solvent Substitutional solid solution Vacancy Weight percent
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Chapter 5: Diffusion Diffusion Mechanisms (vacancy, interstitial) Steady-State Diffusion (Ficks first law) Factors That Influence Diffusion Other Diffusion Paths
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