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Multifractal burst in the spatio-temporal dynamics of jerky flow

Materials Science 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The collective behavior of dislocations in jerky flow is studied in Al-Mg polycrystalline samples subjected to constant strain rate tests. Complementary dynamical, statistical and multifractal analyses are carried out on the stress-time series recorded during jerky flow to characterize the distinct spatio-temporal dynamical regimes. It is shown that the hopping type B and the propagating type A bands correspond to chaotic and self-organized critical states respectively. The crossover between these types of bands is identified by a large spread in the multifractal spectrum. These results are interpreted on the basis of competing scales and mechanisms.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0109189,
  title  = {Multifractal burst in the spatio-temporal dynamics of jerky flow},
  author = {M. S. Bharathi and M. Lebyodkin and G. Ananthakrishna and C. Fressengeas and L. P. Kubin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0109189},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 6 figures To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2001)