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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
A constant pressure molecular-dynamics technique is used to simulate aluminum bicrystals. The ion-ion pair potential is obtained from second order pseudopotential theory and is explicitly electron density dependent. The total cohesive energy of a metal also includes a structurally independent term which is electron density dependent. The density dependence of the total cohesive energy is carried through in the lagrangian equations of motion, so the dynamics of the simulation explicitly contains global density dependence. The simulation is at constant pressure and temperature. Temperatures up to the bulk melting point are explored in a ∑=5 symmetric tilt aluminum bicrystal.