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Atomistic potentials for palladium-silver hydrides

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Hale, L.M.; Wong, B.M.; Zimmerman, Jonathan A.; Zhou, X.W.

New embedded-atom method potentials for the ternary palladium-silver- hydrogen system are developed by extending a previously developed palladium-hydrogen potential. The ternary potentials accurately capture the heat of mixing and structural properties associated with solid solution alloys of palladium-silver. Stable hydrides are produced with properties that smoothly transition across the compositions. Additions of silver to palladium are predicted to alter the properties of the hydrides by decreasing the miscibility gap and increasing the likelihood of hydrogen atoms occupying tetrahedral interstitial sites over octahedral interstitial sites. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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The application of an atomistic J-integral to a ductile crack

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Zimmerman, Jonathan A.; Jones, Reese E.

In this work we apply a Lagrangian kernel-based estimator of continuum fields to atomic data to estimate the J-integral for the emission dislocations from a crack tip. Face-centered cubic (fcc) gold and body-centered cubic (bcc) iron modeled with embedded atom method (EAM) potentials are used as example systems. The results of a single crack with a K-loading compare well to an analytical solution from anisotropic linear elastic fracture mechanics. We also discovered that in the post-emission of dislocations from the crack tip there is a loop size-dependent contribution to the J-integral. For a system with a finite width crack loaded in simple tension, the finite size effects for the systems that were feasible to compute prevented precise agreement with theory. However, our results indicate that there is a trend towards convergence. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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