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Symmetric and asymmetric tilt grain boundary structure and energy in Cu and Al (and transferability to other fcc metals)

  • Mark A. TschoppEmail author
  • Shawn P. Coleman
  • David L. McDowell
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Abstract

Symmetric and asymmetric tilt grain boundaries in Cu and Al were generated using molecular statics energy minimization in a classical molecular dynamics code with in-plane grain boundary translations and an atom deletion criterion. The following dataset (NIST repository, http://hdl.handle.net/11256/358) contains atomic coordinates for minimum energy grain boundaries in three-dimensional periodic simulation cells, facilitating their use in future simulations. This grain boundary dataset is used to show the relative transferability of grain boundary structures from one face-centered cubic system to another; in general, there is good agreement in terms of grain boundary energies (R2 > 0.99). Some potential applications and uses of this tilt grain boundary dataset in nanomechanics and materials science are discussed.

Keywords

Tilt grain boundaries Grain boundary structure Grain boundary energy fcc Molecular dynamics Copper Aluminum LAMMPS Face-centered cubic 
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Acknowledgements

MT and SC would like to acknowledge the US Army Research Laboratory for funding this work. DLM is grateful for the support of the National Science Foundation (CMMI-1232878) and the Carter N. Paden, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mark A. Tschopp
    • 1
    Email author
  • Shawn P. Coleman
    • 1
  • David L. McDowell
    • 2
  1. 1.U.S. Army Research LaboratoryAberdeen Proving GroundUSA
  2. 2.Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlantaUSA

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