An Energy Estimate for Dislocation Configurations and the Emergence of Cosserat-Type Structures in Metal Plasticity

Abstract

We investigate low energy structures of a lattice with dislocations in the context of nonlinear elasticity. We show that these low energy configurations exhibit in the limit a Cosserat-like behavior. Moreover, we give bounds from above and below to the energy of such configurations.

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