About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Characterization: Structural Descriptors, Data-Intensive Techniques, and Uncertainty Quantification
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Presentation Title |
Characterizing the Energetics and Structural Configurations of Silicon Carbide Grain Boundaries Using High-throughput Atomistic Techniques |
Author(s) |
Matthew Guziewski, Dennis Trujillo, Srikanth Patala, Shawn P Coleman |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Matthew Guziewski |
Abstract Scope |
High throughput atomistic models are used to probe the uncertainty in the energetics and structure of silicon carbide at grain boundaries. In this work, a Metropolis style Monte Carlo algorithm is applied to a variety of tilt, twist and mixed character grain boundaries. This approach seeks to capture the variance in structure and energy beyond simply the five macroscopic degrees of freedom that describe the boundary geometry, though the consideration of factors such as metastable states, non-stoichiometric interfaces, and chemical environment near the interface. This allows for the analysis of not just pristine interfaces, but also interfaces that more closely resemble those which are seen experimentally. The observed distributions of energy are used to construct simple relations that relate the energetics to both misorientation/disorientation and to the expected metastable states, and allow for the construction of higher fidelity mesoscale models. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Supplemental Proceedings volume |