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Atomic Scale Simulation of Cross Slip and Screw Dislocation Dipole Annihilation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Torben Rasmussen
Torben Rasmussen*
Affiliation:
Centre for Atomic-scale Materials Physics and Department of Physics Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark, and Materials Research Department, Rise National Laboratory, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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Abstract

Atomistic simulations are used to study cross slip of a single screw dislocation as well as screw dislocation dipole annihilation in Cu. A configuration space path techniquex is applied to determine, without presumptions about the saddle point, the minimum energy path of transition for cross slip. The cross slip process is that proposed by Friedel and Escaig, and the energy of the in-plane constriction initiating cross slip is determined. A minimum stable dipole height much smaller than previously inferred from experimental studies is found. Relaxed screw dislocation dipoles adopt a skew configuration due to the anisotropy of Cu. The path technique is applied to investigate annihilation of stable screw dislocation dipoles, and the energy barrier for annihilation as a function of dipole height is determined for both homogeneous and heterogeneous cross slip leading to the annihilation. The results might be used as quantitative input into meso-/macro-scopical modelling approaches which rely on parameters deduced from either simulation or experiment.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 538: Symposium J – Multiscale Modelling of Materials , 1998 , 51
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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