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Thermal effects in dislocation theory
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00444v2Abstract
The mechanical behaviors of polycrystalline solids are determined by the interplay between phenomena governed by two different thermodynamic temperatures: the configurational effective temperature that controls the density of dislocations, and the ordinary kinetic-vibrational temperature that controls activated depinning mechanisms and thus deformation rates. This paper contains a review of the effective-temperature theory and its relation to conventional dislocation theories. It includes a simple illustration of how these two thermal effects can combine to produce a predictive theory of spatial heterogeneities such as shear-banding instabilities. Its main message is a plea that conventional dislocation theories be reformulated in a thermodynamically consistent way so that the vast array of observed behaviors can be understood systematically.
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