Multipole expansion of continuum dislocations dynamics in terms of alignment tensors

Abstract

Dislocation based modeling of plasticity is one of the central challenges at the crossover of materials science and continuum mechanics. Developing a continuum theory of dislocations requires the solution of two long standing problems: (i) to find a faithful representation of dislocation kinematics with a reasonable number of variables and (ii) to derive averaged descriptions of the dislocation dynamics (i.e. material laws) in terms of these variables. In the current paper we solve the first problem. This is achieved through a multipole expansion of the dislocation density in terms of so-called alignment tensors containing the directional distribution of dislocation density and dislocation curvature. A hierarchy of evolution equations of these tensors is derived from a higher dimensional dislocation density theory. Low order closure approximations of this hierarchy lead to continuum dislocation dynamics models with only few internal variables. Perspectives for more refined theories and current challenges in dislocation density modeling are discussed.

40 pages, 2 figures

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