Dislocation jamming and Andrade creep

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 165501/1-165501/4

  Miguel, M Carmen ^a   Vespignani, Alessandro ^b   Zaiser, Michael ^c   Zapperi, Stefano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREEP; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; VECTORS;

ANDRADE CREEP; DISLOCATION JAMMING; METASTABLE STRUCTURE; PLASTIC CREEP RELAXATION;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

EID: 0037078712     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.165501     Document Type: Article

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