Multiscale modelling of twinning in tin

Thesis topic details

General information

Organisation

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DAM-26-0506  

Direction

DAM

Thesis topic details

Category

Engineering science

Thesis topics

Multiscale modelling of twinning in tin

Contract

Thèse

Job description

Twinning is a displacive deformation mechanism characterized by a continuous deformation of the material. Although widely studied for other industrial materials such as titanium alloys, this inelastic mechanism remains poorly understood and incompletely modeled for complex crystallographic structures. However, due to the reduced number of symmetries in these structures, dislocation slip is insufficient to accommodate deformation in certain loading directions, requiring the activation of twinning. This is the case for tin, which has a tetragonal structure. In particular, twinning contributes significantly to the mechanical response of tin at high strain rates and low temperatures. At intermediate temperatures and strain rates, a competition between dislocation plasticity and twinning plasticity can occur, making it crucial to describe the coupling between these two phenomena. Proposing a better description of this coupling will shed new light on the experimental data available at CEA DAM. The objective of the thesis is to develop a multiscale approach, from molecular dynamics to continuum mechanics, validated by experiments, to converge on a model that describes the behavior of tin over a wide range of temperatures and strain rates.

University / doctoral school

Sciences Mécaniques et Energétiques, Matériaux et Géosciences (SMEMaG)
Autre

Thesis topic location

Site

DAM Île-de-France

Requester

Position start date

01/01/2026

Person to be contacted by the applicant

Bruzy Nicolas nicolas.bruzy@cea.fr
CEA
DAM/DPTA//DPTA
CEA DAM Ile de France
Bruyères-le-Châtel
91297 ARPAJON CEDEX

01 69 26 40 00

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

DENOUAL Christophe christophe.denoual@cea.fr
CEA
DAM/DPEM//DPEM
CEA DAM Ile de France
Bruyères-le-Châtel
91297 ARPAJON Cedex
01 69 26 40 00

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https://www-lmce.cea.fr/team/condensed_matter_physics/denoual.html
https://www-lmce.cea.fr/