A statistical mechanical theory of forest hardening is developed in which yielding arises as a phase transition. For simplicity, we consider the case of a single dislocation loop moving on a slip plane through randomly distributed forest dislocations, which we treat as point obstacles. The occurrence of slip at the sites occupied by these obstacles is assumed to require the expenditure of a certain amount of work commensurate with the strength of the obstacle. The case of obstacles of infinite strength is treated in detail. We show that the behavior of the dislocation loop as it sweeps the slip plane under the action of a resolved shear stress is identical to that of a lattice gas, or, equivalently, to that of the two-dimensional spin-1/2 Ising model. In particular, there exists a critical temperature Tc below which the system exhibits a yield point, i.e., the slip strain increases sharply when the applied resolved shear stress attains a critical value. Above the critical temperature the yield point disappears and the slip strain depends continuously on the applied stress. The critical exponents, which describe the behavior of the system near the critical temperature, coincide with those of the two-dimensional spin-1/2 Ising model.
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M. Ortiz
M. Ortiz
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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M. Ortiz
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
J. Appl. Mech. Jun 1999, 66(2): 289-298 (9 pages)
Published Online: October 25, 1999
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August 14, 1998
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November 20, 1998
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Ortiz, M. (October 25, 1999). "Plastic Yielding as a Phase Transition." ASME. J. Appl. Mech. June 1999; 66(2): 289–298. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2791048
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