Molecular dynamics study of the nucleation rate of nanopores in aluminum at a negative pressure

DS Voronin and VS Krasnikov and AE Mayer, XXXI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EQUATIONS OF STATE FOR MATTER (ELBRUS 2016), 774, 012062 (2016).

DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/774/1/012062

The rate of a homogeneous nucleation of nanovoids in expanded aluminum is researched in this work. Typical lifetime of the system in a metastable state at a negative pressure as well as coefficients of surface tension and nucleation frequency at the temperatures 300 and 500 K are obtained with the help of molecular dynamic simulation. The large value of the pre-exponential factor should be noted, which requires further detailed investigations.

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