Simulation of collision cascades in intermetallic V2Hf compounds

The molecular dynamics technique is used to simulate a collision cascade in V2Hf intermetallic compounds. Pair interaction potentials in Buckingham form, mixed potentials and collision cascades with low primarily knocked-out atom energy have been calculated. The velocity vectors coincide with the directions of closest packing of atoms of V and Hf. Simultaneously a compressive shock wave was formed, generated by the chains of Nb atoms along which focusing collisions propagate