About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Hume-Rothery Symposium: Interface Structure and Properties: Impact on Microstructure Evolution
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| Presentation Title |
David Srolovitz and metallic glasses |
| Author(s) |
Takeshi Egami |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Takeshi Egami |
| Abstract Scope |
The Ph.D. thesis project of David Srolovitz was the atomic-level stresses in metallic glasses. In liquid and glass, it is not clear what the term “structure” means. Vasek Vitek and I introduced the concept of atomic-level stresses to characterize the local atomic structure of liquid and glass. His role was to see how this concept helps elucidate mechanical properties and structural relaxation. The results are several milestone papers which are highly cited even today. He established basic ideas, local disorder leading to deformation and relaxation by narrowing the atomic pressure distribution. He and I also proposed key concepts of the foundation for the glass transition and equipartition theorem for atomic-level stresses. These initial developments laid the foundation for the later formation of the density wave theory of liquid and glass, which successfully explains various properties of liquid and glass. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Modeling and Simulation, Computational Materials Science & Engineering, |