The Emergence and Role of Dipolar Dislocation Patterns in Discrete and Continuum Formulations of Plasticity

Abstract

The plasticity transition at the yield strength of a crystal typically signifies the tendency of dislocation defects towards relatively unrestricted motion. For an isolated dislocation the motion is in the slip plane with velocity proportional to the shear stress, while due to the long range interaction dislocation ensembles move towards satisfying emergent collective elastoplastic modes. Such collective motions have been discussed in terms of the elusively defined backstress. In this paper, we develop a two-dimensional stochastic continuum dislocation dynamics theory that clarifies the role of backstress and demonstrates a precise agreement with the collective behavior of its discrete counterpart, as a function of applied load and with only three essential free parameters. The main ingredients of the continuum theory is the evolution equations of statistically stored and geometrically necessary dislocation densities, which are driven by the long-range internal stress, a stochastic flow stress term and, finally, two local diffusion-like terms. The agreement is shown primarily in terms of the patterning characteristics that include the formation of dipolar dislocation walls.

8 pages, 6 figures

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