Heterogeneous dislocation nucleation in single crystal copper-antimony solid-solution alloys

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Rajgarhia, Rahul K ^a   Spearot, Douglas E ^a   Saxena, Ashok ^a  

^a University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY ATOMS; CONCENTRATION OF; DISLOCATION NUCLEATION; DOPANT ATOMS; EMBEDDED-ATOM METHOD POTENTIALS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL; MD SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PARTIAL DISLOCATIONS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SINGLE CRYSTAL COPPER; SOLID SOLUTION ALLOY; STACKING FAULT ENERGIES; STATISTICAL VARIATIONS; STRAIN FIELDS; SUBSTITUTIONAL DEFECTS; UNIAXIAL TENSIONS;

ANTIMONY; ATOMS; CERIUM ALLOYS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TENSILE STRESS;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

EID: 70350654040     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: 1361651X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/5/055001     Document Type: Article

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