Three-Dimensional Mapping of Dislocation Avalanches: Clustering and Space/Time Coupling

3 January 2003

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Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 299 (5603) , 89-92
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1079312

Abstract

There is growing evidence for the complex, intermittent, and heterogeneous character of plastic flow. Here we report a three-dimensional mapping of dislocation avalanches during creep deformation of an ice crystal, from a multiple-transducers acoustic emission analysis. Correlation analysis shows that dislocation avalanches are spatially clustered according to a fractal pattern and that the closer in time two avalanches are, the larger the probability is that they will be closer in space. Such a space/time coupling may contribute to the self-organization of the avalanches into a clustered pattern.

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