Scalable, Composable Operators for Defect Design and Analysis

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dc.contributor.advisorChung, Peter Wen_US
dc.contributor.authorWeisburgh, Rose Ellenen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-25T06:34:56Z
dc.date.available2017-01-25T06:34:56Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractIt is well understood that defects adversely affect the electro-mechanical properties of materials. Ideally, defect compositions of device materials could be measured, but present technology in the field of atomic defect detection is either destructive in nature, or is unable to determine the precise atomic composition of materials. In the adjacent field of damage detection in large-scale truss networks, algorithms based on spectral measurements have successfully been employed to locate damaged members. Already similar principles have been applied to material lattices experimentally by using Raman Spectroscopy to qualitatively approximate defect densities within materials. However, the applications have largely been limited to surface defects or two-dimensional materials, and the host lattices and defect types are primarily studied anecdotally. This thesis details a numerical method for determining the precise phonon or vibration spectra of material lattices with defects. The dynamical matrices of lattices containing defects are calculated by introducing defects systematically into the dynamical matrices of pristine, defect-free lattices using linear operators. Each operation modifies or removes an individual bond or interaction. Complex defect configurations can be composed through reiterative application of the operators. The proposed methods may be applied to systems containing any interaction type or bond order, including space trusses and atomic lattices. The method is demonstrated by numerically determining the convergence rate of phonon properties in the dilute limit of a single point vacancy. Then the same methodology is applied to two-dimensional atomic lattices with central forces, two-dimension truss networks with distributed mass, as well as three-dimensional atomic lattices with non-linear many body potentials. In each example, the defect structure and properties are shown to alter the spectral properties of the materials.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M27N9S
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19058
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMechanical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMaterials Scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddefect analysisen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddefect designen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddefect dynamicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmaterial defecten_US
dc.titleScalable, Composable Operators for Defect Design and Analysisen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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