scholarly journals Assessment of mechanical, thermal properties and crystal shapes of monoclinic tricalcium silicate from atomistic simulations

2021 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 106269
Author(s):  
Jérôme Claverie ◽  
Siham Kamali-Bernard ◽  
João Manuel Marques Cordeiro ◽  
Fabrice Bernard
Author(s):  
Riccardo Dettori ◽  
Luciano Colombo

Glassy materials are condensed matter systems showing physical properties in between solids and liquids and retaining information about the thermal history they have been subjected to and the way they have been prepared. Formally, this implies that their configurational energy landscape is a complex multi-dimensional surface, showing quite a few basins with different depths, widths, and shapes: the system can be trapped in any of them, assuming very unlike physical properties. Recently, it has been demonstrated experimentally that a glassy system can be grown by physical vapor deposition of organic molecules on a substrate. The physics of such organic glasses is enriched by a new feature, namely: the anisotropic molecular structure of the basic building blocks used to assemble the film. TPD-based organic glasses have been generated by atomistic simulations that mimic vapor deposition and their thermal properties have been accordingly calculated. Simulations generate a rational phenomenology, providing robust evidence that heat transfer is not isotropic but, rather, correlated to an inherent molecular property, namely the axial structure of the TPD molecule. Furthermore, we present the first theoretical prediction of the specific heat trend versus temperature, showing in the quantum regime an intriguing anomaly with respect to crystalline systems.


2016 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. 3026-3035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstanze R. Hahn ◽  
Claudio Melis ◽  
Luciano Colombo

Author(s):  
S. N. Medyanik ◽  
N. Vlahopoulos

Due to the harsh environments created by high speeds, significant new demands are placed on materials used for constructing hypersonic vehicles. Ultra high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) like carbides and borides exhibit unique thermal properties, such as very high melting points and good thermal conductivities. These properties make the ceramic materials good candidates for applications like Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) of the hypersonic vehicles. However, thermal properties of UHTCs may be very sensitive to microstructures of the materials. Thus, atomic scale defects may impact certain thermal properties, such as thermal conductivity. The effects of such small defects may be properly studied only through atomistic simulation methods, such as molecular dynamics (MD). Previously, atomistic simulation studies have been performed for the effects of point defects on thermal properties in silicon carbide (SiC). In addition, atomistic simulations have been applied to assess thermal conductivity in zirconium diboride (ZrB2) for perfect crystals and polycrystals. However, to our knowledge, no studies of the effects of point defects have been performed for zirconium diboride. This paper applies atomistic simulations to assess the impact of point defects on thermal conductivity in ZrB2 perfect crystals. Recently derived interatomic potential for ZrB2 along with LAMMPS molecular simulation package and MedeA software environment are employed in this effort. Phonon part of the thermal conductivity is calculated using Green-Kubo method. Calculations for a perfect crystal are conducted first and the results are compared to experimental data available from the literature. Then, several types of point defects are considered (vacancies, substitutions, and interstitials) and their impact on the phonon conductivity is evaluated. It is found that even a small concentration of point defects may have substantial effect and result in a reduction in the thermal conductivity values by almost an order of magnitude. The obtained results are in good qualitative agreement with previous studies conducted for silicon carbide. The methodology which is utilized in this work, the modeling procedure, and the obtained results are discussed in this paper.


2021 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 106588
Author(s):  
Shahin Mohammad Nejad ◽  
Rajat Srivastava ◽  
Francesco Maria Bellussi ◽  
Hernán Chávez Thielemann ◽  
Pietro Asinari ◽  
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1960 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 332-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
W WENDLANDT ◽  
J VANTASSEL ◽  
G ROBERTHORTON
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1990 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.A. Millar ◽  
T.J. Whitley ◽  
S.C. Fleming

2005 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 309-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. García ◽  
E. Marín ◽  
O. Delgado-Vasallo ◽  
J. Portelles ◽  
G. Peña Rodríguez ◽  
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