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Contributions of the embedded-atom method to materials science and engineering

  • Three decades of many-body potentials in materials research
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Many-body potentials were introduced in the early 1980s and have become a workhorse for the simulation of materials, especially metallic systems. The physical motivations for the main classes of the various many-body potentials are summarized, and the advantages of this approach are discussed. Some current examples related to grain growth, stress generation in thin films, shock loading, and nanowire deformation are presented to illustrate the continuing value of these approaches. Finally, some of the approaches that have been introduced in subsequent years are briefly described.

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The authors would like to thank Sandia National Laboratories, a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04–94AL85000.

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  1. Computational Materials Science and Engineering Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Stephen M. Foiles

  2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA

    Michael I. Baskes

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Foiles, S.M., Baskes, M.I. Contributions of the embedded-atom method to materials science and engineering. MRS Bulletin 37, 485–491 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2012.93

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