The diffusion behaviors of helium atoms at two symmetric grain boundaries (Σ5<001>{210} andΣ3<110> {112}) of Pd were investigated using molecular dynamics simulations through an analytical embedded-atom method(MAEAM) model. The simulations demonstrate that the interstitial helium atoms are easily trapped at the grain boundaries and precipitated into clusters. Due to the closed-shell electronic configurations of both helium and palladium, Pd grain boundaries yield strong capability of retaining helium atoms. By calculating the mean square displacements(MSD) of an interstitial helium atom at the grain boundaries, the diffusion coefficients were determined, and the linear fits to Arrhenius relation. The diffusion activation energies of interstitial helium atom at these two Pd grain boundaries were also evaluated.
An OpenMP approach was proposed to parallelize the sequential molecular dynamics(MD) code on shared memory machines. When a code is converted from the sequential form to the parallel form, data dependence is a main problem. A traditional sequential molecular dynamics code is anatomized to find the data dependence segments in it, and the two different methods, i.e., recover method and backward mapping method were used to eliminate those data dependencies in order to realize the parallelization of this sequential MD code. The performance of the parallelized MD code was analyzed by using some performance analysis tools. The results of the test show that the computing size of this code increases sharply form 1 million atoms before parallelization to 20 million atoms after parallelization, and the wall clock during computing is reduced largely. Some hot-spots in this code are found and optimized by improved algorithm. The efficiency of parallel computing is 30% higher than that of before, and the calculation time is saved and larger scale calculation problems are solved.
The structural defects of L10 FePt are investigated by the molecular dynamics (MD) with a modified analytic embedded-atom method (MAEAM). The L10 ordered structure of FePt is relaxed from a trial fcc structure. The defect formation energies are calculated. The vacancy formation energies of Fe and Pt are 1.89 eV and 2.11 eV respectively. The antisite formation energy of Fe in Pt sublattice is 0.35 eV. The antisite formation energy of Pt in Fe sublattice is 0.09 eV. The tendency of the vacancy formation energy is in agreement with other calculation. The point defect structure types are Pt antisite in rich-Pt side and Fe antisite in rich-Fe side.
The microstructure and thermal stability of nanocrystalline vanadium with an average grain size ranging from 2.86 to 7.50 nm are calculated by means of the analytic embedded-atom method and molecular dynamics. The grain boundary and nanocrystal- line grain atoms are differentiated by the common neighbor analysis method. The results indicate that the fraction of grain boundary increases with the grain size decreasing, and the mean energy of atoms is higher than that of coarse crystals. The thermal-stable tem- peratures of nanocrystalline vanadium are determined from the evolution of atomic energy, fraction of grain boundary and radial distribution function. It is shown that the stable tem- perature decreases obviously with the grain size decreasing. In addition the reasons which cause the grain growth of nanocrystalline vanadium are discussed.
WEI Mingzhi1, XIAO Shifang1, YUAN Xiaojian2 & HU Wangyu1,2 1. Material Science and Engineering College, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
