On the unstable stacking criterion for ideal and cracked copper crystals

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Abstract
The unstable stacking criteria for an ideal copper crystal under homogeneous shearing and for a cracked copper crystal under pure mode II loading are analysed. For the ideal crystal under homogeneous shearing, the unstable stacking energy γ us defined by Rice in 1992 results from shear with no relaxation in the direction normal to the slip plane. For the relaxed shear configuration, the critical condition for unstable stacking does not correspond to the relative displacement Δ = bp /2 where bp is the Burgers vector magnitude of the Shockley partial dislocation, but to the maximum shear stress. Based on this result, the unstable stacking energy y us is defined for the relaxed lattice. For the cracked crystal under pure mode Ii loading, the dislocation configuration corresponding to Δ = bp /2 is a stable state and no instability occurs during the process of dislocation nucleation. The instability takes place at approximately Δ = 3bp /4. An unstable stacking energy y us is defined which corresponds to the unstable stacking state at which the dislocation emission takes place. A molecular dynamics method is applied to study this in an atomistic model and the results verify the analysis above.