Deformation of Crystalline Materials: Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar

Deformation of Crystalline Materials: Molecular Dynamics Simulations

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 16th May 2011
  • Speaker: Con Healy (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

In order to improve industrial machining processes, a good understanding of plasticity of bulk metals is required. In metals, plasticity is strongly dependent on the microstructure of the material. At micron scales, the orientation and size of single crystal grains becomes important. At sub-micron scales, closely packed packed crystalline planes and crystalline defects such as dislocations become increasingly important. Here we present molecular dynamics simulations of strained crystalline structures. Particular attention is given to micropillar compression testing, an experimental technique in which micron scale single crystal pillars are compressed.

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