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Interatomic potential to predict the binary metallic glass formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Baixin Liu ,
Jiahao Li  and
Wensheng Lai
Wensheng Lai
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Abstract

Interatomic potentials are constructed for eight representative binary metal systems covering various structural combinations and thermodynamic characteristics. On the basis of the constructed interatomic potentials, molecular dynamics simulations reveal that the physical origin of metallic glass formation is the crystalline lattice collapsing while solute atoms are exceeding the critical value, thus determining two critical solid solubilities for the system. For a binary metal system, the composition range bounded by the two determined critical solid solubilities is therefore defined as its intrinsic glass-forming range, or quantitative glass-forming ability.

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AlloyAmorphousSimulation
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , May 2010 , pp. 976 - 981
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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