Effect of impact loading duration on yield strength (Q735705)

Let us consider a crystal as an elastic isotropic body containing dislocations of one slip system. It is known that the following condition must be fulfilled in order for a dislocation at rest to be set in motion: in the vicinity of the dislocation, the tangential component of the stress tensor acting in the dislocation slip plane in the direction of the Burgers vector must exceed in absolute value a certain threshold \(\sigma_0\) which characterizes the resistance impeding the dislocation motion. We will analyze a situation in which the external stress component \(\sigma_B\) does not reach the threshold level; for certainty, let \(\sigma_B\) be positive, so that we have \(0 <\sigma_B<\sigma_0\). In this case, favorable action of the thermal motion of atoms is needed for the onset of dislocation motion. We will treat the thermal motion of atoms as a certain rapidly oscillating stress field (called the fluctuating field), which always exists within the body and depends on its temperature. It will be assumed that the fluctuating field will obey the following simplifying assumptions.