Mild-to-wild plastic transition is governed by athermal screw dislocation slip in bcc Nb
Q. Rizzardi,
C. McElfresh,
G. Sparks,
D. D. Stauffer,
J. Marian and
R. Maaß ()
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Q. Rizzardi: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C. McElfresh: University of California, Los Angeles
G. Sparks: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
D. D. Stauffer: Bruker Nano Surfaces & Metrology, Hysitron Products
J. Marian: University of California, Los Angeles
R. Maaß: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-9
Abstract:
Abstract Plastic deformation in crystals is mediated by the motion of line defects known as dislocations. For decades, dislocation activity has been treated as a homogeneous, smooth continuous process. However, it is now recognized that plasticity can be determined by long-range correlated and intermittent collective dislocation processes, known as avalanches. Here we demonstrate in body-centered cubic Nb how the long-range and scale-free dynamics at room temperature are progressively quenched out with decreasing temperature, eventually revealing intermittency with a characteristic length scale that approaches the Burgers vector itself. Plasticity is shown to be bimodal across the studied temperature regime, with conventional thermally-activated smooth plastic flow (‘mild’) coexisting with sporadic bursts (‘wild’) controlled by athermal screw dislocation activity, thereby violating the classical notion of temperature-dependent screw dislocation motion at low temperatures. An abrupt increase of the athermal avalanche component is identified at the critical temperature of the material. Our results indicate that plasticity at any scale can be understood in terms of the coexistence of these mild and wild modes of deformation, which could help design better alloys by suppressing one of the two modes in desired temperature windows.
Date: 2022
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