Stochastically forced dislocation density distribution in plastic deformation

Amit K. Chattopadhyay and Elias C. Aifantis
Phys. Rev. E 94, 022139 – Published 26 August 2016

Abstract

The dynamical evolution of dislocations in plastically deformed metals is controlled by both deterministic factors arising out of applied loads and stochastic effects appearing due to fluctuations of internal stress. Such types of stochastic dislocation processes and the associated spatially inhomogeneous modes lead to randomness in the observed deformation structure. Previous studies have analyzed the role of randomness in such textural evolution, but none of these models have considered the impact of a finite decay time (all previous models assumed instantaneous relaxation which is “unphysical”) of the stochastic perturbations in the overall dynamics of the system. The present article bridges this knowledge gap by introducing a colored noise in the form of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise in the analysis of a class of linear and nonlinear Wiener and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes that these structural dislocation dynamics could be mapped on to. Based on an analysis of the relevant Fokker-Planck model, our results show that linear Wiener processes remain unaffected by the second time scale in the problem, but all nonlinear processes, both the Wiener type and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type, scale as a function of the noise decay time τ. The results are expected to ramify existing experimental observations and inspire new numerical and laboratory tests to gain further insight into the competition between deterministic and random effects in modeling plastically deformed samples.

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  • Received 19 May 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.022139

©2016 American Physical Society

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General Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Amit K. Chattopadhyay*

  • Mathematics, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, United Kingdom and Aston Materials Centre, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, United Kingdom

Elias C. Aifantis

  • Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece; Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931, USA; ITMO University, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia; and BUCEA, Beijing 100044, China

  • *Corresponding author: a.k.chattopadhyay@aston.ac.uk
  • mom@mom.gen.auth.gr

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Vol. 94, Iss. 2 — August 2016

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