First Principle Study for the Melting Properties of Face-Centred-Cubic Aluminum

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Ab initio electronic structure optimization and total energy calculations for fcc aluminum are used to study the equation of state (EOS).Through fitting to quasi-harmonic Debye model, the thermodynamics properties of different temperatures are calculated. The melting curve at different pressures is presented based on Lindemann measures. The results show that the calculated EOS and the revised melting curve both are in a good agreement with the shock compression and the diamond-anvil-cell (DAC) data. The results illustrate that we can use simple static calculation method which takes less time to gain reasonable melting results. It can be used in the qualitative forecast for materials with difficult experiments.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 535-536)

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342-345

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January 2013

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