Complexity in dislocation dynamics: model

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2 May 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0105035

Abstract

We propose a numerical model to study the viscoplastic deformation of ice single crystals. We consider long-range elastic interactions among dislocations, the possibility of mutual annihilation, and a multiplication mechanism representing the activation of Frank-Read sources due to dislocation pinning. The overdamped equations of motion for a collection of dislocations are integrated numerically using different externally applied stresses. Using this approach we analyze the avalanche-like rearrangements of dislocations during the dynamic evolution. We observe a power law distribution of avalanche sizes which we compare with acoustic emission experiments in ice single crystals under creep deformation. We emphasize the connections of our model with non-equilibrium phase transitions and critical phenomena.

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