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Thermodynamic dislocation theory: Size effect in torsion

Materials Science 2018-08-20 v1

Abstract

The thermodynamic dislocation theory developed for non-uniform plastic deformations is used here for the analysis of twisted copper wires. With a small set of physical parameters that we expect to be independent of strain rate and temperature, we can simulate the torque-twist curves that match the experimental ones of Liu et al. (2012). It is shown that the size effect results from the accumulation and pile-up of excess dislocations.

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@article{arxiv.1808.05757,
  title  = {Thermodynamic dislocation theory: Size effect in torsion},
  author = {Khanh Chau Le and Yinguang Piao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05757},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

23 pages, 12 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1806.04304, arXiv:1803.04838

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