… The free surface may act as an effective source of dislocations to initiate and … dislocation
nucleation. We show the activation volume associated with surface dislocation nucleation is …

… We demonstrate strain-rate sensitivity emerging in single-crystalline Cu nanopillars with …
at different constant strain rates. In the range of pillar diameters and strain rates tested, we find …

… for nucleation involves the … dislocation nucleation and dislocation motion can be readily
understood through atomistic simulations. Here, we focus our attention on dislocation nucleation …

… However, a sudden increase in strain rate to 10 −3 s −1 causes a noticeable surge in
dislocation density as the nucleation rate outweighs the loss rate. This observation indicates that …

… On the other hand, if we reduce the applied strain rate to a certain level, the plastic … into a
dislocation nucleation mechanism. Based on the present study we have proposed a strain rate–…

… predict the dislocation nucleation rate based on the Becker–Döring theory of nucleation and
… if we replace E by the shear modulus l and the uniaxial strain rate e by c. However, because …

… homogeneous nucleation of voids in single crystal copper and the heterogeneous nucleation
… The simulations suggest void growth occurs through anisotropic dislocation nucleation and …

… Here we study the heterogeneous dislocation nucleation behaviors from an existing
nanoscale void embedded in a prototypical multi-principal-element (MPE) NiCoCr alloy via …

… dislocation nucleation in … dislocation nucleation is the predominant mechanism underlying
plastic yielding. We have probed the quasi-static tensile response over a range of strain rates, …

… of dislocation nucleation, but its limited timescale remains a significant challenge for …
nucleation at experimentally relevant conditions. Here we show that dislocation nucleation rates can …