The goal of
this project is to develop and apply computer simulation
techniques to predict the influence of alloy composition
on dislocation motion in aluminum-magnesium alloys.
There are three current projects
1. Quantum
mechanical simulations of dislocation core structures
(Lou Hector, Bill Curtin)
2. Molecular
dynamic and kinetic MonteCarlo simulations of the
interaction of dislocations with solute atoms and
precipitates
(David Olmsted, Lou Hector, Yu Qi, Bill Curtin)
3. Discrete
dislocation simulations of dynamic strain ageing in
aluminum-magnesium alloys
(Mike Dewald, Bill Curtin)
