Magnesium interatomic potential for simulating plasticity and fracture phenomena

Magnesium has multiple dislocation and twinning systems with starkly different properties, which make its plastic deformation strongly anisotropic and highly complex. Existing empirical interatomic potentials fail to capture the full scope of these properties, making current molecular statics and dynamics simulation results of limited quantitative and predictive use. Here, based on the work by Kim et al, a new modified embedded-atom method...