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The kinetics of dislocations is studied with computer simulation at loadings of different intensity. It is established that the dislocations have a few different structural states. The dislocations "with the micropore" play important role…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Metlov

On microscopic and mesoscopic scales, plastic flow of crystals is characterized by large intrinsic fluctuations. Deformation by crystallographic slip occurs in a sequence of intermittent bursts ('slip avalanches') with power-law size…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Zaiser , Paolo Moretti

Synchrotron Laue microdiffraction and Digital Image Correlation measurements were coupled to track the elastic strain field (or stress field) and the total strain field near a general grain boundary in a bent bicrystal. A 316L stainless…

Predicting the failure and plasticity of solids remains a longstanding challenge, with broad implications for materials design and functional reliability. Disordered solids like metallic glasses can fail either abruptly or gradually without…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Tero Mäkinen , Anshul D. S. Parmar , Silvia Bonfanti , Mikko Alava

Stochastic models for pore collapse in granular materials are developed. First, a general fluctuating stress-strain relation for a plastic flow rule is derived. The fluctuations account for non-associativity in plastic deformations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-02 Joseph Bakarji , Daniel M. Tartakovsky

Microcrystals deform very differently from their macroscopic counterparts, displaying a size-dependent yield stress and intermittent plastic strain bursts. Here we demonstrate that size effects and strain bursts may be just two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-04 Valentina Beato , Michael Zaiser , Stefano Zapperi

Typically, the plastic yield stress of a sample is determined from a stress-strain curve by defining a yield strain and reading off the stress required to attain it. However, it is not a priori clear that yield strengths of microscale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-22 Zoe Budrikis , Stefano Zapperi

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

The universality class of the avalanche behavior in plastically deforming crystalline and amorphous systems has been commonly discussed, despite the fact that the microscopic defect character in each of these systems is different. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-08 Hengxu Song , Dennis Dimiduk , Stefanos Papanikolaou

Understanding lattice deformations is crucial in determining the properties of nanomaterials, which can become more prominent in future applications ranging from energy harvesting to electronic devices. However, it remains challenging to…

We demonstrate that plastic deformation in solids is associated with a dynamic transition that is reminiscent to the transition from a superconducting to a mixed phase in Type II superconductors. We report analytic calculations, extensive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-06 Saswati Ganguly , Juergen Horbach , Peter Sollich , Smarajit Karmakar , Surajit Sengupta

Efficient and precise prediction of plasticity by data-driven models relies on appropriate data preparation and a well-designed model. Here we introduce an unsupervised machine learning-based data preparation method to maximize the…

Materials are often heterogeneous at various length scales, with variations in grain structure, defects, and composition which has a strong influence on the emergent macroscopic plastic behavior. In particular, heterogeneities lead to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-17 Dénes Berta , David Kurunczi-Papp , Lasse Laurson , Péter Dusán Ispánovity

Here we use large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the high-rate deformation of nanocrystalline tantalum to investigate the processes associated with plastic deformation for strains up to 100%. We use initial atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-27 Robert E. Rudd

In this work we employ data-driven homogenization approaches to predict the particular mechanical evolution of polycrystalline aggregates with tens of individual crystals. In these oligocrystals the differences in stress response due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ari L. Frankel , Reese E. Jones , Coleman Alleman , Jeremy A. Templeton

We propose an approach for exploiting machine learning to approximate electronic fields in crystalline solids subjected to deformation. Strain engineering is emerging as a widely used method for tuning the properties of materials, and this…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-28 Ying Shi Teh , Swarnava Ghosh , Kaushik Bhattacharya

We present an original approach for predicting the static recrystallization texture development during annealing of deformed crystalline materials. The microstructure is considered as a population of subgrains and grains whose sizes and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-22 Arthur Després , Jean-Denis Mithieux , Chad. W. Sinclair

Machine learning has significantly advanced the understanding and application of structural materials, with an increasing emphasis on integrating existing data and quantifying uncertainties in predictive modeling. This study presents a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-27 Jing Luo , Yejun Gu , Yanfei Wang , Xiaolong Ma , Jaafar. A El-Awady

We investigate a minimal model of the plastic deformation of amorphous materials. The material elements are assumed to exhibit ideally plastic behavior (J2 plasticity). Structural disorder is considered in terms of random variations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Stefan Sandfeld , Michael Zaiser

Crystal plasticity occurs by deformation bursts due to the avalanche-like motion of dislocations. Here we perform extensive numerical simulations of a three-dimensional dislocation dynamics model under quasistatic stress-controlled loading.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 Arttu Lehtinen , Giulio Costantini , Mikko J. Alava , Stefano Zapperi , Lasse Laurson