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Dislocation assemblies exhibit a jamming or yielding transition at a critical external shear stress value $\sigma=\sigma_c$. Nevertheless the nature of this transition has not been ascertained. Here we study the heterogeneous and collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Lasse Laurson , M. -Carmen Miguel , Mikko J. Alava

We develop a continuum model for the dynamics of grain boundaries in three dimensions that incorporates the motion and reaction of the constituent dislocations. The continuum model is based on a simple representation of densities of curved…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-08 Xiaoxue Qin , Luchan Zhang , Yang Xiang

We develop a fully coupled theoretical description of dislocation dynamics on deformable crystalline surfaces, using continuum modeling and the amplitude-phase-field crystal (APFC) framework extended to curved geometries. We derive a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-17 Marcello De Donno , Luiza Angheluta , Marco Salvalaglio

The notion of a congruence of effective dislocation lines endowed with the nonvanishing local Burgers vector is introduced. Particularly, the class of congruences of principal Volterra-type effective dislocation lines associated with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Andrzej Trzesowski

We provide a minimal continuum model for mesoscale plasticity, explaining the cellular dislocation structures observed in deformed crystals. Our dislocation density tensor evolves from random, smooth initial conditions to form self-similar…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-03 Yong S. Chen , Woosong Choi , Stefanos Papanikolaou , James P. Sethna

A continuum model of the two dimensional low angle grain boundary motion and the dislocation structure evolution on the grain boundaries has been developed in Ref. [48]. The model is based on the motion and reaction of the constituent…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-14 Luchan Zhang , Yang Xiang

In recent years, the behavior of dislocations in random solid solutions has received renewed interest, and several models have been discussed where random alloys are treated as effective media containing random distributions of dilatation…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Ronghai Wu , Michael Zaiser

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

It has been shown in experiments that self-climb of prismatic dislocation loops by pipe diffusion plays important roles in their dynamical behaviors, e.g., coarsening of prismatic loops upon annealing, as well as the physical and mechanical…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-21 Xiaohua Niu , Yejun Gu , Yang Xiang

We extend previous conduction-based analogies between ice growth in a lake and cosmological expansion by incorporating buoyancy-driven heat transport. Reformulating the Stefan problem with both conductive and convective fluxes yields an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Lorens F. Niehof , Ananya Venkatasubramanian , Federico Toschi , Stefano Liberati

Chemical reactions can accelerate, slow down or even be at the very origin of the development of dissolution-driven convection in partially miscible stratifications, when they impact the density profile in the host fluid phase. We…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 V. Loodts , B. Knaepen , L. Rongy , A. De Wit

We study the nonlinear driven response and sliding friction behavior of the phase-field-crystal (PFC) model with pinning including both thermal fluctuations and inertial effects. The model provides a continuous description of adsorbed…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-08 J. A. P. Ramos , E. Granato , S. C. Ying , C. V. Achim , K. R. Elder , T. Ala-Nissila

In small-scale metallic systems, collective dislocation activity has been correlated with size effects in strength and with a step-like plastic response under uniaxial compression and tension. Yielding and plastic flow in these samples is…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-18 Xiaoyue Ni , Stefanos Papanikolaou , Gabriele Vajente , Rana X Adhikari , Julia R. Greer

Validating dislocation patterning models against in situ imaging experiments is a longstanding goal in materials physics. Here, we provide the first direct morphological comparison of such models. Using in situ Dark-Field X-ray Microscopy…

We study the mechanics and statistical physics of dislocations interacting on cylinders, motivated by the elongation of rod-shaped bacterial cell walls and cylindrical assemblies of colloidal particles subject to external stresses. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-15 Ariel Amir , Jayson Paulose , David R. Nelson

During the plastic deformation of crystalline materials, 3d dislocation networks form based on dislocation junctions. Particularly, immobile Lomer junctions are essential for the stability of dislocation networks. However, the formed Lomer…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-09 Balduin Katzer , Kolja Zoller , Julia Bermuth , Daniel Weygand , Katrin Schulz

Understanding plastic deformation of crystals in terms of the fundamental physics of dislocations has remained a grand challenge in materials science for decades. To overcome this, the Discrete Dislocation Dynamics (DDD) method has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-03 Nicolas Bertin , Wei Cai , Sylvie Aubry , Athanasios Arsenlis , Vasily V. Bulatov

In this paper we consider the dynamics of dislocations with the same Burgers vector, contained in the same glide plane, and moving in a material with periodic obstacles. We study two cases: i) the particular case of parallel straight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 A. El Hajj , H. Ibrahim , R. Monneau

A phenomenological model of the evolution of an ensemble of interacting dislocations in an isotropic elastic medium is formulated. The line-defect microstructure is described in terms of a spatially coarse-grained order parameter, the…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-30 J. M. Rickman , Jorge Vinals

We derive a phase field crystal model that couples the diffusive evolution of a microscopic structure with the fast dynamics of a macroscopic velocity field, explicitly accounting for the relaxation of elastic excitations. This model…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Vidar Skogvoll , Marco Salvalaglio , Luiza Angheluta