Convergence of Interaction-driven Evolutions of Dislocations
Dr. Lucia Scardia, University of Bath
Sala conferenze IMATI-CNR - Tuesday, September 29, 2015 h.15:00
Abstract. It is well known that the plastic, or permanent, deformation of a metal is caused by the
movement of curve-like defects in its crystal lattice. These defects are called dislocations.
What is not yet clear is how to use this microscale information to make theoretical predictions
at the continuum scale.
Motivated by this, M.G. Mora, M. Peletier and I considered a system of interacting dislocations
and studied the convergence of the evolution of the corresponding empirical measures in the limit
of many dislocations. In the continuum limit we obtained an evolution law for the dislocation density.
In this talk I will present this result and discuss its limitations and further extensions towards more realistic
and complex systems.
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