采用第一性原理分子动力学(Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics,AIMD)方法研究了Al和Zr液固转变过程中的能量、偶关联函数、结构因子和键对分布的变化规律,获得了不同温度下两种金属液体的扩散系数和黏度.结果表明,AIMD计算得到的液态金属偶关联函数、结构因子和扩散系数与实验测量数据符合得很好.在冷速为5.0×1013和2.5×1013K/s时,液态Al分别在730K附近发生玻璃化转变或者形成有一定缺陷的fcc晶体结构.在平均冷却速率为4.3×1013和2.0×1014K/s的条件下,液态Zr在1200K时分别开始转变为热力学上亚稳定的bcc结构和玻璃相.Zr的液态和玻璃态结构中二十面体和bcc类型短程序是其主要拓扑短程序.
Al-Ni alloys have better glass forming ability (GFA) than other Al-based alloys. However, the relationship among the atomic arrangement, glass transition, packing density and composition hasn’t been systematically studied. In this paper the ab initio molecular dynamics simulation (AIMD) was performed on the atom packing and density of AlxNi100-x (x=80, 83, 85, 86, 87 and 90) alloys. The pair correlation function and Voronoi tessellation indicated that there are obvious topological and chemical short-range orders in these alloys. The topological structure consists of Al-centered icosahedra like and Ni-centered tri-capped trigonal prism (TTP) like polyhedra. There is strong chemical short-range ordering between Al and Ni atoms indicated by the bond-length of Al-Ni pair shorter than the sum of the radii of Al and Ni atoms, which increases with the increasing of Ni content. It is shown that the densities of amorphous alloys don’t agree with the linear law with a peak at x=85. Based on the features of the structure and density, it is concluded that Al-Ni alloys at x=84–86 have high GFA, which can be extended to multi-component Al-based alloys.
YU ChunYan1, HUI XiDong1, CHEN XiaoHua1, LIU XingJun1, LIN DeYe1, LIU ZiKui2 & CHEN GuoLiang1 1 State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
