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Continuum models of dislocation plasticity require constitutive closure assumptions, e.g., by relating details of the dislocation microstructure to energy densities. Currently, there is no systematic way for deriving or extracting such…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-26 Hengxu Song , Nina Gunkelmann , Giacomo Po , Stefan Sandfeld

Dislocation-density-based crystal plasticity (CP) models are introduced to account for the microstructural changes throughout the deformation process, enabling more quantitative predictions of the deformation process compared to slip-system…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Jalal Smiri , Oguz Umut Salman , Ioan R. Ionescu

Dislocations are the main carriers of the permanent deformation of crystals. For simulations of engineering applications, continuum models where material microstructures are represented by continuous density distributions of dislocations…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-02 Xiaohua Niu , Yichao Zhu , Shuyang Dai , Yang Xiang

Stressed dislocation pattern formation in crystal plasticity at finite deformation is demonstrated for the first time. Size effects are also demonstrated within the same mathematical model. The model involves two extra material parameters…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-04 Rajat Arora , Amit Acharya

The theory of the dislocation motion in the periodic potential relief of the crystal lattice (the Peierls-Nabarro barriers) is reviewed. On the basis of the kink mechanism the temperature dependence of the flow stress is described for a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 B. V. Petukhov

In this paper, we present a dislocation-density-based three-dimensional continuum model, where the dislocation substructures are represented by pairs of dislocation density potential functions (DDPFs), denoted by $\phi$ and $\psi$. The slip…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-23 Yichao Zhu , Yang Xiang

To develop a dislocation-based statistical continuum theory of crystal plasticity is a major challenge of materials science.During the last two decades such a theory has been developed for the time evolution of a system of parallel edge…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-12 István Groma , Péter Dusán Ispánovity , Thomas Hochrainer

We study a parabolic differential equation whose solution represents the atom dislocation in a crystal for a general type of Peierls-Nabarro model with possibly long range interactions and an external stress. Differently from the previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Stefania Patrizi , Enrico Valdinoci

We propose a numerical model to study the viscoplastic deformation of ice single crystals. We consider long-range elastic interactions among dislocations, the possibility of mutual annihilation, and a multiplication mechanism representing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. -Carmen Miguel , Alessandro Vespignani , Stefano Zapperi , Jerome Weiss , Jean-Robert Grasso

Crystal plasticity of sub-micron finite volumes is characterized by the flow of emergent dislocation defects, giving rise to size effects in mechanical properties and avalanche phenomena. In this chapter, we present a minimal model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-09 Stefanos Papanikolaou , Michail Tzimas

This paper deals with the micro-macro derivation of models from the underlying description provided by methods of the kinetic theory for active particles. We consider the so-called exotic models according to the definition proposed in in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Diletta Burini , Nadia Chouhad

Organic molecular crystals encompass a vast range of materials from pharmaceuticals to organic optoelectronics and proteins to waxes in biological and industrial settings. Crystal defects from grain boundaries to dislocations are known to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-01 Sang T. Pham , Natalia Koniuch , Emily Wynne , Andy Brown , Sean M. Collins

The Peierls-Nabarro (PN) model for dislocations is a hybrid model that incorporates the atomistic information of the dislocation core structure into the continuum theory. In this paper, we study the convergence from a full atomistic model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Tao Luo , Pingbing Ming , Yang Xiang

It is shown that the dynamics of a two-dimensional crystal with a finite concentration of dislocations, as well as vacancy and interstitial defects, is governed by the hydrodynamic equations of a viscoelastic medium. At the longest length…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Cristina Marchetti , Karl Saunders

Plastic deformation of metals involves the complex evolution of dislocations forming strongly connected dislocation networks. These dislocation networks are based on dislocation reactions, which can form junctions during the interactions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-22 Balduin Katzer , Kolja Zoller , Daniel Weygand , Katrin Schulz

Digital image correlation (DIC) is a well-established, non-invasive technique for tracking and quantifying the deformation of mechanical samples under strain. While it provides an obvious way to observe incremental and aggregate…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-16 Stefanos Papanikolaou , Michail Tzimas , Andrew C. E. Reid , Stephen A. Langer

A new formulation of the Phase Field Crystal model is presented that is consistent with the necessary microscopic independence between the phase field, reflecting the broken symmetry of the phase, and both mass density and elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Amit Acharya , Jorge Viñals

A computational approach has been developed for the analysis of the properties of 3D dislocation substructures generated by the vector density continuum dislocation dynamics (CDD), within the framework of crystal plasticity. In the CDD…

Dynamics of spreading of viscous non - volatile fluid droplets on surfaces is modelled using a solid - on - solid model, which is studied with Monte Carlo simulations. Tendency for dynamical layering and surface attraction are in part…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 O. Venäläinen , T. Ala-Nissila , K. Kaski

A continuum mechanical model of coupled dislocation based plasticity and fracture at finite deformation is proposed. Motivating questions and target applications of the model are sketched.

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-04 Amit Acharya