Ab initio modeling of dislocation core properties in metals and semiconductors

D Rodney, L Ventelon, E Clouet, L Pizzagalli… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Dislocation cores, the regions in the immediate vicinity of dislocation lines, control a number
of properties such as dislocation mobility, cross-slip and short-range interactions with other …

Slip planes in bcc transition metals

CR Weinberger, BL Boyce… - International materials …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Slip in face centred cubic (fcc) metals is well documented to occur on {111} planes in< 110>
directions. In body centred cubic (bcc) metals, the slip direction is also well established to …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic insights into the deformation mechanism of an amorphous wrapped nanolamellar heterostructure and its effect on self-lubrication

C Yang, C Yin, Y Wu, Q Zhou, X Liu - Journal of Materials Research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The evolution of pearlite into an amorphous wrapped nanolamellar heterostructure (AWNH)
within the tribolayer is an important process for the formation and stabilization of a …

Achieving DFT accuracy with a machine-learning interatomic potential: Thermomechanics and defects in bcc ferromagnetic iron

D Dragoni, TD Daff, G Csányi, N Marzari - Physical Review Materials, 2018 - APS
We show that the Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP) machine-learning framework can
describe complex magnetic potential energy surfaces, taking ferromagnetic iron as a …

Unusual activated processes controlling dislocation motion in body-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys

B Chen, S Li, H Zong, X Ding… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Atomistic simulations of dislocation mobility reveal that body-centered cubic (BCC) high-
entropy alloys (HEAs) are distinctly different from traditional BCC metals. HEAs are …

Critical length scale controls adhesive wear mechanisms

R Aghababaei, DH Warner, JF Molinari - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
The adhesive wear process remains one of the least understood areas of mechanics. While
it has long been established that adhesive wear is a direct result of contacting surface …

Interatomic potentials for modelling radiation defects and dislocations in tungsten

MC Marinica, L Ventelon, MR Gilbert… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We have developed empirical interatomic potentials for studying radiation defects and
dislocations in tungsten. The potentials use the embedded atom method formalism and are …

Development and application of a Ni-Ti interatomic potential with high predictive accuracy of the martensitic phase transition

WS Ko, B Grabowski, J Neugebauer - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Phase transitions in nickel-titanium shape-memory alloys are investigated by means of
atomistic simulations. A second nearest-neighbor modified embedded-atom method …

Accurate interatomic force fields via machine learning with covariant kernels

A Glielmo, P Sollich, A De Vita - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We present a novel scheme to accurately predict atomic forces as vector quantities, rather
than sets of scalar components, by Gaussian process (GP) regression. This is based on …

Molecular dynamics simulation of the Stribeck curve: Boundary lubrication, mixed lubrication, and hydrodynamic lubrication on the atomistic level

S Stephan, S Schmitt, H Hasse, HM Urbassek - Friction, 2023 - Springer
Lubricated contact processes are studied using classical molecular dynamics simulations for
determining the entire range of the Stribeck curve. Therefore, the lateral movement of two …