Fracture Mechanism of Single and Polycrystal Silver Nanowire: Computational Study

Md Ferdous Alam; Md.Shadmanur Rahman

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Volume 54 | Number 6 | Year 2018 | Article Id. IJMTT-V54P557 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V54P557

Fracture Mechanism of Single and Polycrystal Silver Nanowire: Computational Study

Md Ferdous Alam, Md.Shadmanur Rahman

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Md Ferdous Alam, Md.Shadmanur Rahman, "Fracture Mechanism of Single and Polycrystal Silver Nanowire: Computational Study," International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology (IJMTT), vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 471-476, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V54P557

Abstract

Molecular Dynamics Simulation has been used as the computational tool to investigate the mechanical properties and fracture mechanism of silver nanowire. Two types of nanowires have been chosen in this study- single crystal and polycrystal. Using two different strain rates (1 x 109 s-1 and 1 x 1010 s-1) the stress-strain behaviour has been shown for these nanowires. To study the temperature effect, the simulations have been performed under four different temperatures (0.01K, 300K, 600K, 900K). Embedded Atom Method (EAM) potentials have been used as the interatomic potential to perform the MD simulations. It has been found that the maximum value of stress reduces with the increase in temperature. The yield strength of the polycrystalline nanowire is lower than the single crystal nanowire but at the same time the polycrystalline nanowire shows significant amount of ductility.

Keywords

Nanowire, polycrystal, Molecular dynamics, strain rate, plasticity

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