Structure and Elastic Properties of Ni/Cu and Ni/Au Multilayers

1992 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ademola Taiwo ◽  
Hong Yan ◽  
Gretchen Kalonji

ABSTRACTThe structure and elastic properties of Ni/Cu and Ni/Au multilayer systems are investigated as a function of the number of Ni monolayers built into the systems. We employed lattice statics simulations with the interatomic potentials described by the embedded-atom method. For the Ni/Cu systems, coherent interfaces and FCC structure are maintained, and no elastic anomaly is found. For the Ni/Au systems, when the Ni layers are thick enough, they undergo a strain-induced phase transformation from FCC to HCP structure. An enhancement of Young’s modulus of these systems is found to be associated with this structural change.

Author(s):  
L. G. Zhou ◽  
Hanchen Huang

A controversy exists among literature reports of constraints on elastic constants. In particular, it has been reported that embedded atom method (EAM) potentials generally impose three constraints on elastic constants of crystals that are inconsistent with experiments. However, it can be shown that some EAM potentials do not impose such constraints at all. This paper first resolves this controversy by identifying the necessary condition when the constraints exist and demonstrating the condition is physically necessary. Furthermore, this paper reports that these three constraints are eliminated under all conditions, by using response EAM (R-EAM) potentials.


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (37) ◽  
pp. 375503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Jian Yuan ◽  
Nan-Xian Chen ◽  
Jiang Shen ◽  
Wangyu Hu

1989 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Sabochick ◽  
Nghi Q. Lam

ABSTRACTRadiation-induced amorphization of the crystalline compound CuTi was investigated by molecular-dynamics simulations using new interatomic potentials derived from the embedded-atom method. Two different approaches to amorphization were tried: one in which Cu and Ti atoms were randomly exchanged, and another in which Frenkel pairs were introduced at random. The potential energy, volume expansion and pair-correlation function were calculated as functions of chemical disorder and atomic displacements. The results indicate that, although both chemical disordering and point-defect introduction increase the system energy and volume, the presence of Frenkel pairs is essential to trigger the crystalline-to-amorphous transition.


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