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Shock-induced melting and crystallization in titanium irradiated by ultrashort laser pulse

Vasily Zhakhovsky·Yury Kolobov·Sergey Ashitkov·Nail Inogamov·Ivan Nelasov·Sergey Manokhin·Victor Khokhlov·Denis Ilnitsky·Yury Petrov·Andrey Ovchinnikov·Oleg Chefonov·Dmitriy Sitnikov
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Modification of titanium microstructure after propagation of a melting shock wave (SW) generated by a femtosecond laser pulse is investigated experimentally and analyzed using hydrodynamic and atomistic simulations. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy with analysis of microdiffraction is used to determine the microstructure of subsurface layers of pure titanium sample before and after modification. We found that two layers of modified titanium are formed beneath the surface. A top surface polycrystalline layer of nanoscale grains is formed from a shock-molten layer via rapid crystallization. In a deeper subsurface layer, where the shock-induced melting becomes impossible due attenuation of SW, recrystallization of plastically deformed titanium leads to grain size changes in comparison with intact titanium. Molecular dynamics simulation of single-crystal titanium reveals that the SW front continues to melt/liquefy even after its temperature drops below the melting curve $T_m(P)$. The enormous shear stress generated in a narrow SW front leads to collapse/amorphization of the crystal lattice and formation of a supercooled metastable melt. Such melt crystallizes in an unloading tail of SW until its temperature becomes higher than $T_m(P)$ due to a rapid pressure drop. Later, crystallization of the subsurface molten layer will continue after the heat leaves it. After the shear stress drops below $\sim 12$GPa within the SW front, such the cold mechanical melting ceases giving place to the shock-induced plastic deformations. The depth of modification is limited by SW attenuation to the Hugoniot elastic limit, and can reach several micrometers. The obtained results reveal the basic physical mechanisms of surface hardening of metals by ultrashort laser pulses.

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Vasily Zhakhovsky, Yury Kolobov, Sergey Ashitkov, Nail Inogamov, Ivan Nelasov, Sergey Manokhin, Victor Khokhlov, Denis Ilnitsky, Yury Petrov, Andrey Ovchinnikov, Oleg Chefonov, Dmitriy Sitnikov. 2023-06-15. Shock-induced melting and crystallization in titanium irradiated by ultrashort laser pulse. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0165622

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