Atomistic Simulation of Creep in a Nanocrystal

We describe a method to simulate on macroscopic time scales the stress relaxation in an atomistic nanocrystal model under an imposed strain. Using a metadynamics algorithm for transition state pathway sampling we follow the full evolution of a classical anelastic relaxation event, with relaxation ti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lau, Timothy T., Kushima, Akihiro, Yip, Sidney
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58606
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2727-0137