Ternary Fe-Cu-Ni many-body potential to model reactor pressure vessel steels: First validation by simulated thermal annealing

Philosophical Magazine

Volumn 89, Issue 34-36, 2009, Pages 3531-3546

  Bonny, G ^a,b   Pasianot, R C ^c,d   Castin, N ^a,e   Malerba, L ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atomistic simulation; Fe based alloys; Interatomic potential; Nanoscale precipitates; Reactor pressure vessel steels; Structural materials

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; FE-BASED ALLOYS; INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE PRECIPITATES; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL STEELS; STRUCTURAL MATERIALS;

ALLOYS; BOILERS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CAISSONS; COPPER ALLOYS; EXPERIMENTS; IRON ALLOYS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NICKEL; PRESSURE VESSELS; SIMULATORS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 72049112817     PISSN: 14786435     EISSN: 14786443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14786430903299824     Document Type: Article

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