A proof of Taylor scaling for curvature-driven dislocation motion through random arrays of obstacles

DOI10.1007/S00205-022-01765-5MaRDI QIDQ2127907zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Courte, Patrick W. Dondl, M. Ortiz

Publication date 21 April 2022

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00798

zbMATH Keywords

power-law dependence of flow stress on dislocation densityviscosity subsolutionviscosity supersolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Unilateral problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear parabolic operators (35K86)

Abstract: We prove Taylor scaling for dislocation lines characterized by line-tension and moving by curvature under the action of an applied shear stress in a plane containing a random array of obstacles. Specifically, we show--in the sense of optimal scaling--that the critical applied shear stress for yielding, or percolation-like unbounded motion of the dislocation, scales in proportion to the square root of the obstacle density. For sufficiently small obstacle densities, Taylor scaling dominates the linear-scaling that results from purely energetic considerations and, therefore, characterizes the dominant rate-limiting mechanism in that regime.

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