The indentation response of Nickel nano double gyroid lattices

Khaderi, Syed Nizamuddin and Scherer, M R J and Hall, C E and Steiner, U and Ramamurty, U and Fleck, N A and Deshpande, V S (2017) The indentation response of Nickel nano double gyroid lattices. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 10. pp. 15-23. ISSN 23524316

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Abstract

The indentation response of Nickel nano double gyroid films has been measured using a Berkovich nanoindenter and the effective mechanical properties of the Ni double gyroid lattices inferred via a multi-scale finite element analysis. The View the MathML source1μm thick double gyroid films were manufactured by block copolymer self-assembly followed by electrodeposition of the Ni resulting in two interpenetrating single gyroids of opposite chirality, an overall relative density of 38% and a cell size of about 45 nm. The measured hardness was ∼0.6 GPa with no discernable indentation size effect. A multi-scale finite element (FE) analysis revealed that the uniaxial compressive strength is approximately equal to the hardness for this compressible lattice. Thus, the 38% relative density Ni double gyroid has a strength equal to or greater than the strongest fully dense bulk Ni alloys. The FE calculations revealed that this was a consequence of that fact that the Ni in the 13 nm gyroid struts was essentially dislocation free and had a strength of about 5.7 GPa, i.e. approaching the theoretical strength value of Ni. The measurements and calculations reported here suggest that in spite of the nano gyroids having a bending-dominated topology they attain strengths higher than those reported for stretching-dominated micron scale lattice materials made via 3D printing. We thus argue that relatively fast and easy self-assembly processes are a competitive alternative to 3D printing manufacture methods for making high strength lattice materials.

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Khaderi, Syed NizamuddinUNSPECIFIED
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Lattice materials, nano-lattices; Size effects; Indentation
Subjects: Physics > Mechanical and aerospace
Others > Mechanics
Divisions: Department of Physics
Depositing User: Team Library
Date Deposited: 23 Jan 2017 04:48
Last Modified: 20 Sep 2017 11:18
URI: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/3010
Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2016.08.006
OA policy: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/2352-4316/
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