Unlocking dislocation secrets

Michael Marder ()
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Michael Marder: The University of Texas at Austin

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6668, 637-638

Abstract: What happens to the metal of a paper clip when you bend it? Tackling that seemingly simple question depends on knowing how change on the atomic scale relates to change at the mesoscopic scale (of around 10-6 m) and upwards. Molecular dynamics simulations are used in this work. A new, multidisciplinary analysis provides a quantitative case-study of how complicated phenomena at the atomic level are transformed into the dislocations that allow metals to deform.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/35500

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