Fractional brownian motion of dislocations during creep deformation of metals

The present work offers an explanation on how the long-range interaction of dislocations influences their movement, and therefore the strain, during creep of metals. It is proposed that collective motion of dislocations can be described as a fractional Brownian motion. This explains the noisy appear...

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Autores: Fernández, Ricardo, Bruno, Giovanni, Garcés, Gerardo, Nieto-Luis, H., González-Doncel, Gaspar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/226019
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/226019
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Creep
Aluminum alloys
Dislocation motion
Diffusion
Fractal structures
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Sumario:The present work offers an explanation on how the long-range interaction of dislocations influences their movement, and therefore the strain, during creep of metals. It is proposed that collective motion of dislocations can be described as a fractional Brownian motion. This explains the noisy appearance of the creep strain signal as a function of time. Such signal is split into a deterministic and a stochastic part. These terms can be related to two kinds of dislocation motions: individual and collective, respectively. The description is consistent with the fractal nature of strain-induced dislocation structures predicated in previous works. Moreover, it encompasses the evolution of the strain rate during all stages of creep, including the tertiary one. Creep data from Al99.8% and Al-3.85%Mg tested at different temperatures and stresses are used to validate the proposed ideas: it is found that different creep stages present different diffusion characters, and therefore different dislocation motion character.