Numerical Analysis on Elastic Properties of Beryllium under High Pressure or High Temperature
Li Tingting He Lijun Li Guolong Liang Sen Xu Demei Zhong Jingming
Ningxia Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Materials,Ningxia University
State Key Laboratory of Special Rare Metal Materials,Northwest Rare Metal Materials Research Institute
Abstract:
Based on plane wave pseudo-potential in the framework of density functional theory( DFT),first principle calculations were performed to investigate elastic properties of beryllium for hexagonal close packed( hcp) structure( α-Be). The generalized gradient approximation( GGA) was adopted in concrete calculation in using CASTEP code of Material Studio program. The elastic constants of monocrystalline beryllium,the bulk modulus,shear modulus,Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of polycrystalline beryllium were calculated under the condition of hydrostatic pressure in the range of 0 to 100 GPa. The same work mentioned above was also finished under the condition of environment temperature varying from 0 to 1300 K. First principle numerical simulations were also performed to investigate elastic properties of beryllium for body centered cubic( bcc) structure( β-Be). Calculation results were in good agreement with those experimental data obtained from references. Results showed that the elastic constants increased monotonically with pressure increasing,but decreased with temperature increasing monotonically; C_(12) and C_(13),describing deformation coupling along different directions,were more sensitive than the other elastic parameters to the changes of pressure or temperature; pressure increase made the value of beryllium lattice structure parameter c/a increase and approach to the ideal close packed value,while in temperature increasing process,this value deceased steadily. Pressure increase was a process of raising the density of atom packing,based on this understanding,the possibility and actualizing form of hcp-fcc( face centered cubic) phase transformation under high pressure were discussed.
主要计算设置:采用密度泛函理论的赝势平面波方法及周期性边界条件,电子波函数通过平面基组展开,由超软赝势(USP)来描述离子实与价电子之间的相互作用势,采用BFGS算法对结构进行几何优化,广义梯度近似交换相关函数为GGA-PBE形式;对hcp铍体材料的截断能设为360 e V,倒空间中布里渊区积分采用Monkhorst-Pack方法,K点网格设置为17×17×10,能量收敛精度为1.0×10-6,力精度为0.01
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表1 α-Be晶体原胞晶格参数、体弹性模量及模量一阶导数Table 1 Calculated and experimental crystal parameters,bulk modulus and pressure derivatives of modu-lus ofα-Be 下载原图
表1 α-Be晶体原胞晶格参数、体弹性模量及模量一阶导数Table 1 Calculated and experimental crystal parameters,bulk modulus and pressure derivatives of modu-lus ofα-Be
图1 计算铍弹性性能随压力变化情况Fig.1 Calculated elastic parameters of beryllium versus pressure
(a)Elastic constants Cij;(b)Relative values of elastic constant Cij/Cij0,Cij0elastic constant at 0 GPa;(c)Elastic modulus Mi,compared with experimental data of Ref.[7];(d)Relative values of elastic modulus Mi/Mi0,Mi0elastic modulus at 0 GPa;(e)B/G;(f)Possion's ratioν
图2 计算铍弹性性能随温度变化情况Fig.2 Calculated elastic parameters of beryllium versus temperature
(a)Elastic constants Cij,compared with experimental data of Ref.[10];(b)Relative values of elastic constants Cij/Cij0,Cij0the elastic constants at 0 K;(c)Elastic modulus Mi,compared with experimental data of Ref.[12];(d)Relative values of elastic modulus Mi/Mi0,Mi0the elastic modulus at 0 K;(e)B/G;(f)Possion's ratioν,compared with experimental data