Pressure-induced Structures and Structural Evolution in Iron

• Autor(a) principal: Qi,Li
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Feng,Shidong, Xu,Na, Ma,Mingzhen, Jing,Qin, Li,Gong, Liu,Riping
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Materials research (São Carlos. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-14392015000700078
• topic: molecular-dynamics; pressure; iron; structure

Molecular-dynamic simulations have been used to study the structure evolution in iron melts rapidly cooled under different pressures. An extreme cooling rate (4×1012K/s) was adopted in the cooling process. The simulation results show that at the ambient pressure, martensitic transformation happened. However, at a pressure of 1.4GPa, the system passes from bcc structure to a less closed packed structure which is composed of both full icosahedra clusters and bcc structure. With the increase of pressures, an amorphous state was observed, and a compacted local structure with more defected icosahedra is obtained. This work contributes to a better understanding about the dynamics of phase transitions in iron under high pressure, especially during the extremely fast cooling process.