Mechanical behavior of a novel carbon-based nanostructured aluminum material

Ahmet Semih Erturk, Yunus Onur Yildiz, Mesut Kirca*

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel carbon-based composite material, which is a hybrid structure consisting of aluminum, fullerene and graphene units, is presented. The proposed structure is basically built by a covalently bonded fullerene-graphene sandwich structure merged into an aluminum block. In order to examine the mechanical characteristics and underlying deformation mechanisms of the structure, tensile and compressive experiments of the specimens with different types of fullerenes (i.e. C60, C80, C180, C240 and C320) are conducted at several loading rates (i.e. 0.5, 0.3, 0.1, 0.05 and 0.005 ps−1) by performing classical molecular dynamics simulations. According to the results, it is found that for both tensile and compressive loadings the hybrid structure becomes much more sensitive to the loading rate as the size of the fullerenes increases. Furthermore, the examination of the compressive behavior shows that increase in loading rate and decrease in fullerene size improves the compressive strength of the hybrid structure. Interestingly, it is also observed that the specimens are amorphized at higher loading rates for both tensile and compressive tests, which provide the enhancement of the strength. In addition to these, a comparison between the proposed nanostructure with C60 fullerenes and pristine aluminum indicates an improved tensile load bearing capability at high loading rates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)193-209
Number of pages17
JournalComputational Materials Science
Volume144
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2018

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© 2017 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords

  • Amorphization
  • Carbon based aluminum
  • Deformation characteristics
  • Mechanical behavior
  • Molecular dynamics
  • Nanocomposite

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