Selected list of recent papers (most recent on the top):

2004
	Sob, M., Friak, M., Legut, D., Fiala, J., Vitek, V. The role of ab initio electronic structure calculations in studies of the strength of materials to be published in Materials Science and Engineering A, 2004
	Nguyen-Manh, D., Dudarev, S.L., Pettifor, D.G., Gröger, R. and Vitek, V. Tight-binding models for fusion reactor materials based on non-magnetic and magnetic bcc transition metals to be published in Philosophical Magazine, 2004
	Nguyen-Manh, D., Cawkwell, M.J., Gröger, R., Mrovec, M., Porizek, R., Pettifor, D.G., Vitek, V. Dislocations in materials with mixed covalent and metallic bonding submitted for publication in Materials Science and Engineering A, 2004
	Gröger, R., Vitek, V. Breakdown of the Schmid law in bcc molybdenum related to the effect of shear stress perpendicular to the slip direction to be published in Mat. Sci. Forum, 2004
	Vitek, V., Mrovec, M., Gröger, R., Bassani, J.L., Racherla, V., Yin, L. Effects of non-glide stresses on the plastic flow of single and polycrystals of molybdenum to be published Mat. Sci. Eng. A, 2004
	Vitek, V. Core structure of screw dislocations in body-centred cubic metals: relation to symmetry and interatomic bonding Phil. Mag. 84 (3-5), pp.415-428, 2004
	Vitek, V., Mrovec, M., Bassani, J.L. Influence of non-glide stresses on plastic flow: from atomistic to continuum modeling Mat. Sci. Eng. A 365 (1-2), pp.31-37, 2004
	Mrovec, M., Nguyen-Manh, D., Pettifor, D.G., Vitek, V. Bond-order potential for molybdenum: Application to dislocation behavior Phys. Rev. B 69 (9), 2004
2003
	Cawkwell, M.J., Nguyen-Manh, D., Vitek, V. and Pettifor, D.G. A combined ab initio and bond-order potentials study of cohesion in iridium in Multiscale Phenomena in Materials - Experiments and Modeling Related to Mechanical Behavior, edited by H. M. Zbib, D. H. Lassila, L. E. Levine, K. J. Hemker, MRS Symposium Proceedings, 779, p. W5.5.1, 2003
	Porizek, R., Znam, S., Nguyen-Manh, D., Vitek, V. and Pettifor, D.G. Atomistic studies of dislocation glide in γ-TiAl in Defect Properties and Related Phenomena in Intermetallic Alloys, edited by E. P. George, H. Inui, M., 2003
	Anongba, P.N.B., Vitek, V. Significance of the deviations of the crack front into the plane perpendicular to the crack propagation direction - I. Crack-front dislocation generation Int. J. of Fracture, 124 (1-2), pp.1-15, 2003
	Friak, M., Sob, M., Vitek, V. Ab initio calculation of tensile strength in iron Phil. Mag. 83 (31-34), pp.3529-3537, 2003
	Friak, M., Sob, M., Vitek, V. Ab initio study of the ideal tensile strength and mechanical stability of transition-metal disilicides Phys. Rev. B 68 (18), 2003
	Mrovec, M., Ochs, T., Elsasser, C., Vitek, V., Nguyen-Manh, D., Pettifor, D.G. Never ending saga of a simple boundary Zeitschrift fur Metallkunde 94 (3), pp.244-249, 2003
	Znam, S., Nguyen-Manh, D., Pettifor, D.G., Vitek, V. Atomistic modelling of TiAl - I. Bond-order potentials with environmental dependence Phil. Mag. 83 (4), pp.415-438, 2003
	Nguyen-Manh, D., Pettifor, D.G., Cockayne, D.J.H., Mrovec, M., Znam, S., Vitek, V. Environmentally dependent bond-order potentials: New developments and applications Bulletin of Mat. Sci., 26 (1), pp.43-51, 2003
	Nomura, M., Vitek, V. An atomistic study of interfacial diffusion in lamellar TiAl alloys Interface Science, 11 (1), pp.99-109, 2003
2002
	Paidar, V. and Vitek, V. Stacking fault-type interfaces and their role in deformation in Intermetallic Compouds: Principles and Practice, 3, edited by J. H. Westbrook and R. L. Fleisher, John Wiley, New York, pp. 437-467, 2002 (review article)
	Duesbery. M.S., Vitek, V. and Cserti, J. Non-Schmid plastic behaviour in bcc metals and alloys in Understanding Materials: A Festschrift for Sir Peter Hirsch, edited by C. J. Humphreys, The Institute of Materials, London, p. 165, 2002
	Bacon, D.J., Vitek, V. Atomic-scale modeling of dislocations and related properties in the hexagonal-close-packed metals Metall. and Mater. Trans. A 33 (3), pp.721-733, 2002
	Moriarty, J.A., Vitek, V., Bulatov, V.V., Yip, S. Atomistic simulations of dislocations and defects J. Comp.-Aided Mat. Design 9 (2), pp.99-132, 2002
	Pettifor, D.G., Oleinik, I.I., Nguyen-Manh, D., Vitek, V. Bond-order potentials: bridging the electronic to atomistic modelling hierarchies Comp. Mat. Sci., 23 (1-4), pp.33-37, 2002
2001
	Ito, V. and Vitek, V. Atomistic study of non-Schmid effects in the plastic yielding of body-centred-cubic metals Philos. Mag. A, 81, pp.1387-1407, 2001
	Mrovec, M., Nguyen-Manh, D., Pettifor, D.G. and Vitek, V. Bond-order potentials with analytic environment-dependent tight-binding integrals: Application to bcc molybdenum in Multiscale Materials Modeling, edited by L. P. Kubin, R. L. Selinger, J. L. Bassani and K. Cho, MRS Symposium Proceedings, 653, p. Z6.3, 2001
	Khantha, M., Vitek, V., Pope, D.P. Strain-rate dependent mechanism of cooperative dislocation generation: application to the brittle-ductile transition Mat. Sci. Eng. A, 319, pp.484-489, 2001
	Bassani, J.L., Ito, K., Vitek, V. Complex macroscopic plastic flow arising from non-planar dislocation core structures Mat. Sci. Eng. A 319, pp.97-101, 2001
	Friak, M., Sob, M., Vitek, V. Ab initio calculation of phase boundaries in iron along the bcc-fcc transformation path and magnetism of iron overlayers Phys. Rev. B, 63 (5), 2001
2000
	Nguyen-Manh, D., Pettifor, D.G., Vitek, V. Analytic environment-dependent tight-binding bond integrals: Application to MoSi2 Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (19), pp.4136-4139, 2000
	Ochs, T., Elsasser, C., Mrovec, M., Vitek, V., Belak, J., Moriarty, J.A. Symmetrical tilt grain boundaries in bcc transition metals: comparison of semiempirical with ab-initio total-energy calculations Phil. Mag. A, 80 (10), pp.2405-2423, 2000
	Fernandez, J.R., Monti, A.M., Pasianot, R.C., Vitek, V. An atomistic study of formation and migration of vacancies in (11-21) twin boundaries in Ti and Zr Phil. Mag. A, 80 (6), pp.1349-1364, 2000