Computer simulation of symmetrical tilt grain boundaries in noble metals with MAEAM
Zhang Jian-Min(张建民)a) † , Huang Yu-Hong(黄育红)a), Xu Ke-Wei(徐可为)b), and Ji Vincentc)
a College of Physics and Information Technology, Shannxi Normal University, Xian 710062, China; b State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials,Xian Jiaotong University, Xian 710049, China; c LIM UMR 8006 ENSAM, 151 bd. de L'H?pital, Paris 75013, France
Abstract This paper reports that an atomic scale study of [$\bar{1}$10] symmetrical tilt grain boundary (STGB) has been made with modified analytical embedded atom method (MAEAM) for 44 planes in three noble metals Au, Ag and Cu. For each metal, the energies of two crystals ideally joined together are unrealistically high due to very short distance between atoms near the grain boundary (GB) plane. A relative slide between grains in the GB plane results in a significant decrease in GB energy and a minimum value is obtained at specific translation distance. The minimum energy of Cu is much higher than that of Ag and Au, while the minimum energy of Ag is slightly higher than that of Au. For all the three metals, the three lowest energies correspond to identical (111), (113) and (331) boundary successively for two translations considered; from minimization of GB energy, these boundaries should be preferable in [$\bar{1}$10] STGB for noble metals. This is consistent with the experimental results. In addition, the minimum energy increases with increasing reciprocal planar coincidence density $\varSigma$, but decreases with increasing relative interplanar distance $d/a$.
Received: 26 December 2005
Revised: 26 June 2006
Accepted manuscript online:
Fund: Project supported by the
State Key Development for Basic Research of China
(Grant No 2004CB619302) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China
(Grant No 50271038).
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Zhang Jian-Min(张建民), Huang Yu-Hong(黄育红), Xu Ke-Wei(徐可为), and Ji Vincent Computer simulation of symmetrical tilt grain boundaries in noble metals with MAEAM 2007 Chinese Physics 16 210
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