The estimation of the size of the plastic zone in the vicinity of the crack tip is of great interest. An attempt using molecular dynamics simulation is made to determine a plastic zone near the crack tip. The embedded atom method (EAM) model is employ...
The estimation of the size of the plastic zone in the vicinity of the crack tip is of great interest. An attempt using molecular dynamics simulation is made to determine a plastic zone near the crack tip. The embedded atom method (EAM) model is employed for the potential energy. All the simulations were carried out on the supercomputer CRAY C90 at SERI (System Engineering Research Institute, Korea). Compared with the theoretical value based on the linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM), the present result shows good agreement.