Interfacial Line Defect Analysis (ILDA) – code for identifying and extracting interfacial line defects (dislocations and disconnections) in atomistic datasets, written in Python for use in OVITO Pro

  • Source code: GitLab repository (released May 2023)
  • Reference: Deka N., Stukowski A., and Sills R. B., Automated Extraction of Interfacial Dislocations and Disconnections from Atomistic Data, Acta Mater., Vol 256, 119096, 2023 [link]
  • Documentation: (see GitLab repository)
  • Funding support: Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences

Parallel Dislocation Simulator (ParaDiS) – mesoscale modeling code for discrete dislocation dynamics written in C/C++, originally released by LLNL and heavily modified by Prof. Sills and other team members in Wei Cai’s group at Stanford (available by request)

Dislocation Junction Energy Tool (DJENT) – code for predicting the strength of a binary dislocation junction based on the constant line tension model, written in MATLAB

  • Source code: DJENT.m (released July 2024)
  • Reference: Duan I. and Sills R. B. Crossed-state bowing and the strength of binary dislocation junctions, J. Mech. Phys. Sol., Vol. 190, 105696, 2024 [link]
  • Documentation: see code header
  • Funding support: Army Research Office

Arrangement of Interfacial Dislocation and Disconnection Arrays (AIDADA) – code for predicting the geometry of line defect arrays in semicoherent crystalline interfaces, written in MATLAB

  • Source code: GitLab repository (released September 2024)
  • Reference: Gordon D. B. and Sills R. B., Self-consistent solution of the Frank-Bilby equation for interfaces containing disconnections, J. Mech. Phys. Sol., In-Press, 2024 [link], based on code developed by Sangghaleh A. and Dekowicz, M. J., AIDA: A tool for exhaustive enumeration of solutions to the quantized Frank-Bilby equation, Comp. Mater. Sci., Vol. 145, p. 35-47, 2018
  • Documentation: (see GitLab repository)
  • Funding support: Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences

Object-based Dislocation Tomography (ObDiTO) – code for performing tomographic reconstruction of dislocation structures from a tilt-series of transmission electron micrographs, written in MATLAB

  • Source code: obdito_Jan2022.zip (released January 2022)
  • Reference: Sills R. B and Medlin D. L. Semi-automated, Object-based Tomography of Dislocation Structures, Microsc. Microanal., Vol. 28, p. 633-645, 2022 [link]
  • Documentation: ObDiTo Manual_Jan2022
  • Funding support: Sandia National Laboratories