Molecular dynamics simulation of the shock response of materials: A tutorial

P Wen, G Tao, DE Spearot, SR Phillpot - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The aim of this Tutorial is to help new researchers understand how to perform molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations of the shock response of materials and to provide a brief …

Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Shock-Induced Deformation Behavior and Failure Mechanism in Metallic Materials

Y Zhu, Q Gong, M Yi - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Shock waves are generated under high-speed impact conditions, creating extreme
environments that are difficult to be simulated. Molecular dynamics (MD), as a vital tool for …

On the grain size dependence of shock responses in nanocrystalline sic ceramics at high strain rates

W Li, EN Hahn, X Yao, TC Germann, B Feng, X Zhang - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Shock induced plasticity, structural phase transitions, as well as dynamic failure in
nanocrystalline SiC ceramics, with grain sizes varying from~ 2 to~ 32 nm, are investigated …

Orientation dependence of shock-induced change of habit plane for the 1/2< 111> dislocation loop and plasticity in tungsten

L Guo, L Wang, N Gao, Y Chen, B Liu, W Hu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tungsten (W) is a promising candidate material for future fusion reactors. The shock waves
generated under high-energy neutron radiation can lead to the formation of prismatic …

Shock-induced plasticity and phase transformation in single crystal magnesium: an interatomic potential and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

Z Jian, Y Chen, S Xiao, L Wang, X Li… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
An effective and reliable Finnis–Sinclair (FS) type potential is developed for large-scale
molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of plasticity and phase transition of magnesium (Mg) …

Atomistic insight into laser shock peening response of α-titanium: an experimentally verified simulation study

R Sun, Z Chen, Q Li, X Zhang, R Li - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Laser shock peening (LSP) can induce severe plastic deformation in the surface zone of
metallic materials, which potentially enhances their mechanical properties. Although it is …

Role of micro-alloying element in dynamic deformation of Mg-Y alloys

B Liu, L Guo, Y Chen, X Li, K Wang, H Deng… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The microscopic mechanism of the effect of alloying element on the shock behavior for alloy
materials is still limited. In this work, based on our developed Finnis–Sinclair (F–S) …

Micro/nano mechanical properties differences of shallow irradiation damage layer revealed by a combined experimental and MD study

Z Zhu, L Guo, R Li, S Chen, H Deng… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Micropillar compression and nanoindentation techniques are both adopted to measure the
mechanical properties in multi-energy He ion-irradiated Ni-based samples to study their …

Phase transformation mediated anomalous plasticity of titanium under severe loading conditions

T Li, H Zong - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Titanium (Ti) with ω phase is always considered brittle and non-deformable. Therefore, little
is known of the role of ω phase in the anomalously high plasticity of titanium alloys …

Spalling modes and mechanisms of shocked nanocrystalline NiTi at different loadings and temperatures

C Lv, G Wang, X Zhang, B Luo, N Luo, F Wu, H Wu… - Mechanics of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spalling damage is one of the typical forms of material dynamic failure, of which the damage
modes and physical mechanisms are directly related to the design of material impact …