Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

S. Conti - A. Garroni - S. Müller

Dislocation microstructures and strain-gradient plasticity with one active slip plane

created by garroni on 08 Oct 2015
modified on 18 Sep 2020

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Inserted: 8 oct 2015
Last Updated: 18 sep 2020

Year: 2015

ArXiv: 1512.03076 PDF

Abstract:

We study dislocation networks in the plane using the vectorial phase-field model introduced by Ortiz and coworkers, in the limit of small lattice spacing. We show that, in a scaling regime where the total length of the dislocations is large, the phase field model reduces to a simpler model of the strain-gradient type. The limiting model contains a term describing the three-dimensional elastic energy and a strain-gradient term describing the energy of the geometrically necessary dislocations, characterized by the tangential gradient of the slip. The energy density appearing in the strain-gradient term is determined by the solution of a cell problem, which depends on the line tension energy of dislocations. In the case of cubic crystals with isotropic elasticity our model shows that complex microstructures may form, in which dislocations with different Burgers vector and orientation react with each other to reduce the total self energy.