Depinning transition for a screw dislocation in a model solid solution

Sylvain Patinet (1) , Laurent Proville (1)

1 SRMP - Service de recherches de métallurgie physique

On the basis of the classical dislocation theory, the Solid Solution Hardening (SSH) is commonly ascribed to the pinning of the edge dislocations. At the atomic level, the theoretical study of the dislocation cores contrasts with such a prediction. Using the static molecular simulations with some interatomic effective potentials, we demonstrate numerically that the critical resolved shear stress associated to a screw dislocation in a random Ni(Al) single crystal has same order as the edge one. Such a result is imposed by the details of the dislocation stacking fault and the core dissociation into Shockley partials. The SSH statistical theory is employed to tentatively predict analytically the data acquired through our atomistic simulations at different Al concentration.

Mots clés: Solid Solution Hardening; Dislocation Theory

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Sylvain Patinet, Laurent Proville. Depinning transition for a screw dislocation in a model solid solution. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2008, 78, pp.104109. ⟨hal-00336032⟩