J. Panova et D. Farkas, ATOMISTIC SIMULATION OF FRACTURE IN TIAL, Metallurgical and materials transactions. A, Physical metallurgy andmaterials science, 29(3A), 1998, pp. 951-955
Atomistic simulations of fracture in L1(0) TiAl were carried out using
embedded atom method (EAM) interatomic potentials and molecular stati
cs. We studied the behavior of semi-infinite cracks under mode I loadi
ng in different orientations of the crack front and plane. For the [0
(1) over bar 1](111) orientation, we observed dislocation emission inv
olving the formation of superlattice intrinsic stacking fault (SISF).
For the [001](110) orientation, we observed the emission of ordinary 1
/2[110] edge dislocations that were highly mobile and had a compact co
re. We found that cracks with [001](100) orientation cleaved near the
Griffith value of loading in a purely brittle manner. Similar behavior
was observed for cracks with [01 (1) over bar](100) orientation.