Dislocations Jam At Any Density

Details Dislocations Jam At Any Density Dislocations Jam At Any Density

2010-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/1012.5096v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

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Crystalline materials deform in an intermittent way via dislocation-slip avalanches. Below a critical stress, the dislocations are jammed within their glide plane due to long-range elastic interactions and the material exhibits plastic response, while above this critical stress the dislocations are mobile (the unjammed phase) and the material fails. We use dislocation dynamics and scaling arguments in two dimensions to show that the critical stress grows with the square root of the dislocation density. Consequently, dislocations jam at any density, in contrast to granular materials, which only jam below a critical density.

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