Avalanches and rate effects in strain-controlled discrete dislocation plasticity of Al single crystals

Abstract

Three-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics simulations are used to study strain-controlled plastic deformation of face-centered cubic aluminium single crystals. After describing the rate and size dependence of the average stress-strain curves, we study the power-law distributed strain bursts and the average avalanche shapes, and find a universal power-law exponent $\tau \approx 1.0$ for all imposed strain rates and system sizes, characterizing both the event sizes and their durations. We discuss the dependence of our results on loading rate and compare these with previous studies of strain-controlled two-dimensional systems of discrete dislocations as well as of quasistatic stress-controlled loading of aluminium single crystals.

7 pages, 6 figures, 39 citations

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