Diffusive Molecular Dynamics and its Application to Nanoindentation and Sintering

Ju Li,1,4,* Sanket Sarkar,2 William T. Cox,2,4 Thomas J. Lenosky,1 Erik Bitzek,1,3 and Yunzhi Wang2,4,† 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA 3Department Werkstoffwissenschaften, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany 4State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials and Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China (Received 12 April 2011; published 4 August 2011)