Ab initio simulation of electronic and mechanical properties of aluminium for fatigue early feature investigation

• Main Authors: Zhang, Shuai, Tan, Cher Ming, Cheng, Shuguang, Deng, Tianqi, He, Feifei, Su, Haibin
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: atomic simulation; surface energy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84945; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40949
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Fatigue crack initiation and propagation are the central issues for understanding fatigue behaviours, and early detection of fatigue will be useful in industry before cartographic events occur. It has been found that surface work function, Young's modulus and surface energy are inter-dependent...