[HTML][HTML] Mild-to-wild plastic transition is governed by athermal screw dislocation slip in bcc Nb

Q Rizzardi, C McElfresh, G Sparks, DD Stauffer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Plastic deformation in crystals is mediated by the motion of line defects known as
dislocations. For decades, dislocation activity has been treated as a homogeneous, smooth …

Avalanche Dynamics and the Effect of Straining in Dislocation Systems with Quenched Disorder

D Berta, B Mendei, PD Ispánovity - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18871, 2024 - arxiv.org
The plastic deformation of crystalline and other heterogeneous materials often manifests in
stochastic intermittent events indicating the criticality of plastic behavior. Previous studies …

Avalanches and plastic flow in crystal plasticity: an overview

S Papanikolaou, Y Cui, N Ghoniem - Modelling and Simulation in …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Crystal plasticity is mediated through dislocations, which form knotted configurations in a
complex energy landscape. Once they disentangle and move, they may also be impeded by …

Glassy features of crystal plasticity

A Lehtinen, G Costantini, MJ Alava, S Zapperi… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Crystal plasticity occurs by deformation bursts due to the avalanchelike motion of
dislocations. Here we perform extensive numerical simulations of a three-dimensional …

[HTML][HTML] Quenched pinning and collective dislocation dynamics

M Ovaska, L Laurson, MJ Alava - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Several experiments show that crystalline solids deform in a bursty and intermittent fashion.
Power-law distributed strain bursts in compression experiments of micron-sized samples …

[HTML][HTML] Statistics of dislocation avalanches in FCC and BCC metals: dislocation mechanisms and mean swept distances across microsample sizes and temperatures

J Alcalá, J Očenášek, J Varillas, J A. El-Awady… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Plastic deformation in crystalline materials consists of an ensemble of collective dislocation
glide processes, which lead to strain burst emissions in micro-scale samples. To unravel the …

Bright x-rays reveal shifting deformation states and effects of the microstructure on the plastic deformation of crystalline materials

AJ Beaudoin, PA Shade, JC Schuren, TJ Turner… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The plastic deformation of crystalline materials is usually modeled as smoothly progressing
in space and time, yet modern studies show intermittency in the deformation dynamics of …

[HTML][HTML] Transformation-and twinning-induced plasticity in phase-separated bcc Nb-Zr alloys: an atomistic study

MM Hasan, SG Srinivasan, D Choudhuri - Journal of Materials Science, 2024 - Springer
Several high-temperature body-centered cubic (bcc) structural materials such as Nb-, Zr-and
Ti-based alloys undergo phase separation, which is a second-order phase transformation …

Universality class of nanocrystal plasticity: localization and self-organization in discrete dislocation dynamics

H Song, D Dimiduk, S Papanikolaou - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
The universality class of the avalanche behavior in plastically deforming crystalline and
amorphous systems has been commonly discussed, despite the fact that the microscopic …

In-situ investigation of dislocation tangle–untangle processes in small-sized body-centered cubic Nb single crystals

X Shu, Y Lu, T Xin, Z Li, Y Chen, H Zhou, S Mao, X Liao - Materials Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Time-resolved dislocation tangle and untangle processes in small-sized body-centered
cubic (BCC) niobium single crystal samples were investigated using in-situ nanoindentation …