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- Malerba, L., et al.
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Ab initio calculations and interatomic potentials for iron and iron alloys : Achievements within the Perfect Project
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Ingår i: Journal of Nuclear Materials. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-3115 .- 1873-4820. ; 406:1, s. 7-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of the FP6 Perfect Project was to develop a first example of integrated multiscale computational models, capable of describing the effects of irradiation in nuclear reactor components, namely vessel and internals. The use of ab initio techniques to study, in the most reliable way currently possible, atomic-level interactions between species and defects, and the transfer of this knowledge to interatomic potentials, of use for large scale dynamic simulations, lie at the core of this effort. The target materials of the Project were bainitic steels (vessel) and austenitic steels (internals), i.e. iron alloys. In this article, the advances made within the Project in the understanding of defect properties in Fe alloys, by means of ab initio calculations, and in the development of interatomic potentials for Fe and Fe alloys are overviewed, thereby providing a reference basis for further progress in the field. Emphasis is put in showing how the produced data have enhanced our level of understanding of microstructural processes occurring under irradiation in model alloys and steels used in existing nuclear power plants.
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- Ackland, G. J., et al.
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Interatomic forces for transition metals including magnetism
- 2010
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Ingår i: 139th Annual Meeting & Exhibition - Supplemental Proceedings, Vol 2. - 9780873397520 ; , s. 85-92
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present a formalism for extending the second moment tight-binding model[1], incorporating ferro- and anti-ferromagnetic interaction terms which are needed for the FeCr system. For antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials, an explicit additional variable representing the spin is required. In a mean-field approximation this spin can be eliminated. and the potential becomes explicitly temperature dependent. For ferromagnetic interactions, this degree of freedom can be eliminated, and the formalism reduces to the embedded atom method (EAM[2]), and we show the equivalence of existing EAM potentials to "magnetic" Potentials.
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- Hepburn, D. J., et al.
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Rescaled potentials for transition metal solutes in α-iron
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Ingår i: Philosophical Magazine. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1478-6435 .- 1478-6443. ; 89, s. 3393-3411
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present semi-empirical potentials for dilute transition metal solutes in α-iron. They are in the Finnis–Sinclair form and are therefore suitable for billion atom molecular dynamics simulations. The potentials have been developed using a rescaling technique to provide solute–iron and solute–solute interactions from an existing iron potential. By fitting to first principles calculations, which show clear trends in the properties of transition metal solutes in iron across the series, we find trends in the rescaling parameters, which we model using simple functions of the occupancy of the d-electron band. We comment on the possibility of utilizing such relationships for the fundamental electronic properties of the solute to create multicomponent potentials for transition metal solutes in α-iron.
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