Avalanches in 2D dislocation systems: plastic yielding is not depinning

PD Ispánovity, L Laurson, M Zaiser, I Groma, S Zapperi… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We study the properties of strain bursts (dislocation avalanches) occurring in two-
dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics models under quasistatic stress-controlled …

Simulations of dislocation structure and response

R LeSar - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2014 - annualreviews.org
Despite 5,000 years of metals in technology and 80 years since dislocations were
postulated as the carriers of deformation, we still lack fundamental theories of dislocation …

Crackling noise in plasticity

MJ Alava, L Laurson, S Zapperi - The European Physical Journal Special …, 2014 - Springer
Plastic deformation is a paradigmatic problem of multiscale materials modelling with
relevant processes ranging from the atomistic scale up to macroscopic scales where …

Rheology across the zero-temperature jamming transition

J Paredes, MAJ Michels, D Bonn - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
Many soft-matter systems show a transition between fluidlike and mechanically solidlike
states when the volume fraction of the material, eg, particles, drops, or bubbles is increased …

Coupled size and temperature effects on intermittent plasticity of BCC micro-crystals

P Zhang, P Cheng, J Zhang, G Liu, J Weiss, J Sun - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The intermittent plasticity of pure Mo microcrystals with diameters from 500 to 3500 nm was
studied using micro-pillar compression methodology at temperatures ranging from 25° C to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Criticality of the zero-temperature jamming transition probed by self-propelled particles

Q Liao, N Xu - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform simulations of athermal systems of self-propelled particles (SPPs) interacting via
harmonic repulsion in the vicinity of the zero-temperature jamming transition at point J. Every …

Universal rescaling of flow curves for yield-stress fluids close to jamming

M Dinkgreve, J Paredes, MAJ Michels, D Bonn - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
The experimental flow curves of four different yield-stress fluids with different interparticle
interactions are studied near the jamming concentration. By appropriate scaling with the …