scholarly journals Local Variability of the Peierls Barrier of Screw Dislocations in Ta-10W.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Foiles
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huili Zhang ◽  
Chun Zhang ◽  
Chunhua Zeng ◽  
Lumei Tong

The dislocation widths, Peierls barriers and Peierls stresses for shuffle screw dislocations in diamond structure crystals, Si and Ge, have been calculated by the improved P-N theory. The widths are about 0.6b, where b is the Burgers vector. The Peierls barrier for shuffle screw dislocation in Si and Ge, is about 3.61~4.61meV/Å and 5.31~13.32meV/Å, respectively. The Peierls stress is about 0.28~0.33GPa and 0.31~0.53GPa, respectively. The calculated Peierls barriers and stresses are likely the results of shuffle screw dislocation with metastable core which is centered on the bond between two atoms.


Author(s):  
F. H. Louchet ◽  
L. P. Kubin

Experiments have been carried out on the 3 MeV electron microscope in Toulouse. The low temperature straining holder has been previously described Images given by an image intensifier are recorded on magnetic tape.The microtensile niobium samples are cut in a plane with the two operative slip directions [111] and lying in the foil plane. The tensile axis is near [011].Our results concern:- The transition temperature of niobium near 220 K: at this temperature and below an increasing difference appears between the mobilities of the screw and edge portions of dislocations loops. Source operation and interactions between screw dislocations of different slip system have been recorded.


Author(s):  
D. S. Pritchard

The effect of varying the strain rate loading conditions in compression on a copper single crystal dispersion-hardened with SiO2 particles has been examined. These particles appear as small spherical inclusions in the copper lattice and have a volume fraction of 0.6%. The structure of representative crystals was examined prior to any testing on a transmission electron microscope (TEM) to determine the nature of the dislocations initially present in the tested crystals. Only a few scattered edge and screw dislocations were viewed in those specimens.


Author(s):  
K.J. Ihn ◽  
R. Pindak ◽  
J. A. N. Zasadzinski

A new liquid crystal (called the smectic-A* phase) that combines cholesteric twist and smectic layering was a surprise as smectic phases preclude twist distortions. However, the twist grain boundary (TGB) model of Renn and Lubensky predicted a defect-mediated smectic phase that incorporates cholesteric twist by a lattice of screw dislocations. The TGB model for the liquid crystal analog of the Abrikosov phase of superconductors consists of regularly spaced grain boundaries of screw dislocations, parallel to each other within the grain boundary, but rotated by a fixed angle with respect to adjacent grain boundaries. The dislocations divide the layers into blocks which rotate by a discrete amount, Δθ, given by the ratio of the layer spacing, d, to the distance between grain boundaries, lb; Δθ ≈ d/lb (Fig. 1).


Author(s):  
Alfonso Sorrentino

This chapter discusses the notion of action-minimizing orbits. In particular, it defines the other two families of invariant sets, the so-called Aubry and Mañé sets. It explains their main dynamical and symplectic properties, comparing them with the results obtained in the preceding chapter for the Mather sets. The relation between these new invariant sets and the Mather sets is described. As a by-product, the chapter introduces the Mañé's potential, Peierls' barrier, and Mañé's critical value. It discusses their properties thoroughly. In particular, it highlights how this critical value is related to the minimal average action and describes these new concepts in the case of the simple pendulum.


2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 091005
Author(s):  
Yukari Ishikawa ◽  
Yoshihiro Sugawara ◽  
Daisaku Yokoe ◽  
Yongzhao Yao

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