Run Xu, Genlian Fan, Zhanqiu Tan, et al. Back stress in strain hardening of carbon nanotube/aluminum composites[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2018, 6(2): 113-120.
DOI:
Run Xu, Genlian Fan, Zhanqiu Tan, et al. Back stress in strain hardening of carbon nanotube/aluminum composites[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2018, 6(2): 113-120.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2017.1405371.
Back stress in strain hardening of carbon nanotube/aluminum composites
BSTRACTAs demonstrated by the loading–unloading tests and the modeling of the grain size effect and the composite effect
mainly owing to the back stress induced by CNTs
carbon nanotube/aluminum (CNT/Al) composites exhibit higher strain hardening capability than the unreinforced ultrafine-grained Al matrix. The back stress induced by CNTs should arise from the interfacial image force and the long-range interaction between statically stored dislocations and geometrically necessary dislocations around the CNT/Al interface. Therefore
this CNT-induced interfacial back stress strengthening mechanism is supposed to provide a novel route to enhancing the strain hardening capability and ductility in CNT/Al composites.
IMPACT STATEMENT
The present work investigates the roles and origins of back stress in the strain hardening of the carbon nanotubes/aluminum composites for the first time.