Dislocation Analysis Tool for Atomistic Simulations

Stukowski, Alexander

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42913-7_20-1

Dislocation Analysis Tool for Atomistic Simulations

Alexander Stukowski³

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First Online: 23 August 2018

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Precise analysis and meaningful visualization of dislocation structures in molecular dynamics simulations are important steps toward physical insights. This chapter provides an introduction to the dislocation extraction algorithm (DXA), which is a computational method for identifying and quantifying dislocations in atomistic crystal models. It builds a bridge between the atomistic world of crystal defects and the discrete line picture of classical dislocation theory.

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Materials Modeling Division, Institute of Materials Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Institute of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Wanda Andreoni
Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA, USA
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Wei Cai
Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Stukowski, A. (2018). Dislocation Analysis Tool for Atomistic Simulations. In: Andreoni, W., Yip, S. (eds) Handbook of Materials Modeling . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42913-7_20-1

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