[lammps-users] How to watch dislocations or other defects in metals by VMD?

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Dear colleagues:

How are you! I am a new user of Lammps. Now I have a problem need your instructions.

How to watch dislocations or other defects in metals?

I have built one dump file according to the “dump … custom … centro” command. But I don’t know how to insert this file to VMD software.

I want to know whether this software can watch the defects in metals by calculation of centro attribute of each atom? How should I do?

Sincerely
Lin Yuan

November 7, 2006

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Your viz program simply needs to color atoms by their centro-symmetry
value or per-atom energy or stress. I don't know how to do that
in VMD, but I assume it is possible. You can do it in the various
Pizza.py viz tools.

Steve