• Rabkin, Eugen
• Mordehai, Dan
• Greer, Julia R.
• Kovalenko, Oleg
• Kositski, Roman

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The pathways by which dislocations, line defects within the lattice structure, overcome microstructural obstacles represent a key aspect in understanding the main mechanisms that control mechanical properties of ductile crystalline materials. While edge dislocations were believed to change their glide plane only by a slow, non-conservative, thermally activated motion, we suggest the existence of a rapid conservative athermal mechanism, by which the arrested edge dislocations split into two other edge dislocations that glide on two different crystallographic planes. This discovered mechanism, for which we coined a term “<jats:italic>cross-split</jats:italic> of edge dislocations”, is a unique and collective phenomenon, which is triggered by an interaction with another same-sign pre-existing edge dislocation. This mechanism is demonstrated for faceted α-Fe nanoparticles under compression, in which we propose that cross-split of arrested edge dislocations is resulting in a strain burst. The cross-split mechanism provides an efficient pathway for edge dislocations to overcome planar obstacles.</jats:p>

Topics

• nanoparticle
• impedance spectroscopy
• dislocation
• plasticity