Plasticity of metal nanowires

CR Weinberger, W Cai - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The mechanisms of plasticity in metal nanowires with diameters below 100 nm are
reviewed. At these length scales, plasticity in face-centered-cubic metals subjected to …

Two-temperature nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of thermal transport across metal-nonmetal interfaces

Y Wang, X Ruan, AK Roy - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2012 - APS
We have used a two-temperature nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method for predicting
interfacial thermal resistance across metal-nonmetal interfaces. This method is an extension …

Coarse-grained atomistic simulation of dislocations

L Xiong, G Tucker, DL McDowell, Y Chen - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new methodology for coarse-grained atomistic simulation of
dislocation dynamics. The methodology combines an atomistic formulation of balance …

Towards more accurate molecular dynamics calculation of thermal conductivity: Case study of GaN bulk crystals

XW Zhou, S Aubry, RE Jones, A Greenstein… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
Significant differences exist among literature for thermal conductivity of various systems
computed using molecular dynamics simulation. In some cases, unphysical results, for …

Nonperturbative quantum nature of the dislocation–phonon interaction

M Li, Z Ding, Q Meng, J Zhou, Y Zhu, H Liu… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Despite the long history of dislocation–phonon interaction studies, there are many problems
that have not been fully resolved during this development. These include an incompatibility …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing the fracture parameters of a graphene sheet using atomistic simulation and continuum mechanics

JL Tsai, SH Tzeng, YJ Tzou - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2010 - Elsevier
The fracture behavior of a graphene sheet, containing a center crack (length of 2a) was
characterized based on the atomistic simulation and the concept of continuum mechanics …

A material frame approach for evaluating continuum variables in atomistic simulations

JA Zimmerman, RE Jones, JA Templeton - Journal of Computational …, 2010 - Elsevier
We present a material frame formulation analogous to the spatial frame formulation
developed by Hardy, whereby expressions for continuum mechanical variables such as …

Physical foundation and consistent formulation of atomic-level fluxes in transport processes

Y Chen, A Diaz - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Irving and Kirkwood [J. Irving and JG Kirkwood, The statistical mechanical theory of transport
processes. IV. The equations of hydrodynamics, J. Chem. Phys. 18, 817 (1950) …

Stress localization resulting from grain boundary dislocation interactions in relaxed and defective grain boundaries

B Kuhr, D Farkas, IM Robertson, D Johnson… - … Materials Transactions A, 2020 - Springer
Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations are used to study strain and stress localization
in atomistic polycrystalline FCC digital samples in a thin-film configuration, deformed in …

Recent progress in the concurrent atomistic-continuum method and its application in phonon transport

X Chen, W Li, A Diaz, Y Li, Y Chen… - MRS …, 2017 - cambridge.org
This work presents the recent progress in the development of the concurrent atomistic-
continuum (CAC) method for coarse-grained space-and time-resolved atomistic simulations …