Study of stress-strain behavior of cracked polycrystalline boron carbide structure in the presence of crack arrest and in different temperature conditions by molecular dynamics method

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Member of Board in Islamic Azad University- Shahrood Branch

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2D structures based on carbon atom such as graphene, carbon nitride (C3N) and boron carbide (BC3) have significant mechanical and themal properties. In this paper, the effect of crack, crack arrester and temperature on the mechanical properties of polycrystalline boron carbide structures was investigated using molecular dynamics simulation. Understanding the performance on boron carbide structures in the presence of crack, which is considered as the main source of stress concentration, is defined as an important process.with this purpose, using the Tersoff potential and periodic boundary conditions, crack length of 5 A, the arresters with a distance of 2 and 4 A of crack tips and different temperatures were analyzed. The results obtained revealed that the mechanical properties for all structures were decreased by increasing the temperature. The Young’s modulus of pristine structure, C5-D2 and C5-D4 was reduced by about 17.21%, 42.12, and 47.84, respectively. A similar behavior was observed for the failure stress and failure strain. Furthermore, the mechanical properties of C5-D2 samples in higher than C5-D4 samples, which indicates that the crack has to spend more energy on failure and it causes the strength of the structures.

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Journal of Solid and Fluid Mechanics
Volume 11, Issue 5
November and December 2021
Pages 95-105

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