A Computational and Theoretical Investigation of the Accuracy of Quasicontinuum Methods

We give computational results to study the accuracy of several quasicontinuum methods for two benchmark problems – the stability of a Lomer dislocation pair under shear and the stability of a lattice to plastic slip under tensile loading. We find that our theoretical analysis of the accuracy near instabilities for one-dimensional model problems can successfully explain most of the computational results for these multi-dimensional benchmark problems. However, we also observe some clear discrepancies, which suggest the need for additional theoretical analysis and benchmark problems to more thoroughly understand the accuracy of quasicontinuum methods.

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