MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS STUDY OF ELASTICITY AND FAILURE OF IDEAL SOLIDS

被引:33
作者
WANG, ZG [1 ]
LANDMAN, U [1 ]
SELINGER, RLB [1 ]
GELBART, WM [1 ]
机构
[1] GEORGIA INST TECHNOL,SCH PHYS,ATLANTA,GA 30332
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1991年 / 44卷 / 01期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.44.378
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Results are presented from molecular-dynamics simulations of ideal solids under conditions of constant temperature, pressure, and uniaxial tensile force. We show that the system remains in metastable equilibrium all the way up to a critical value of the applied stress or force, at which point it fails irreversibly via the nucleation of small-scale defects. The critical load (failure strength) is found to decrease strongly with temperature.
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页码:378 / 381
页数:4
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