Dislocations in the theory of gradient elasticity
Dislocations in the theory of gradient elasticity
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DOI:
10.1016/s1359-6462(98)00424-2
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发表时间:
1999-02-05
影响因子:
6
通讯作者:
Aifantis, EC
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作者:
Gutkin, MY;Aifantis, EC
The present paper is a further development of our previous works [1–3] dealing with dislocations [1, 2] and disclinations [3] in a special theory of gradient elasticity. The main result there was the elimination of strain singularities at the defect line, in analogy to similar work for crack problems [4–10]. It is worth noting, that previous continuum models for such kind of defects which have taken into account couple stresses or non-locality (see [3] for a review), do not dispense with the singularity in the strain field, even though some of them [11–13] claim elimination of stress singularity. The model proposed here results into elimination of the singularity in both the strain and stress fields. Using a simple gradient modification of the linear theory of elasticity in the form [4] trI 2 c 2 trI 2,(1) where and are the Lamé constants, and are the stress and strain tensors, I is the unit tensor, 2 denotes Laplacian and c 0 is the gradient coefficient, the authors of [4–10] have demonstrated the elimination of classical singularity from the solution for the strain field at the crack tip. Encouraged by these results, we employed [1, 2] the same gradient theory to consider dislocations. In particular, four dislocation configurations ie a screw dislocation, an edge dislocation, and the dipoles of such dislocations have been considered. It has been shown that in the case of screw dislocation [1], the elastic strain is zero at the dislocation line and achieves a maximum value (bz/10c), at a distance c from it. It is worth noting that for an atomic lattice, the gradient coefficient c can be estimated [4] as ca/4, where a is the lattice constant. With the Burgers vector bz taken to be equal to a, it follows that the aforementioned maximum value is estimated as 12%. In the case of edge dislocations [2], we have erroneously reported that only the elastic dilatation is strictly equal to zero at the dislocation line, while the other components of the elastic strain remain singular within an extremely small region r 10 3 c (10 3Å for an atomic lattice) from the dislocation line. More careful evaluation of the limits (as r 3 0), however, shows that all strain components are equal to zero at the dislocation line achieving maximum values (3–14)% within the dislocation core (r 4c).