Elastic limit for surface step dislocation nucleation in face-centered cubic metals: Temperature and step height dependence

Origins and implications of temperature-

Origins and implications of temperature-dependent activation energy barriers for dislocation nucleation in face-centered cubic metals

✍ D.H. Warner; W.A. Curtin 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 962 KB

The linking of atomistic simulations of stress-driven processes to experimentally observed mechanical behavior via the computation of activation energy barriers is a topic of intense current research. Using dislocation nucleation from a crack tip as the reaction process, long-time multiscale molecul