Coupled glide-climb diffusion-enhanced crystal plasticity

M.G.D. Geers , M. Cottura , Benoit Appolaire (1) , Esteban P. Busso (2, 3) , Samuel Forest (2) , Aurélien Villani (2)

1 LEM - ONERA - CNRS - Laboratoire d'étude des microstructures [Châtillon]
2 MAT - Centre des Matériaux
3 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Palaiseau]

This paper presents a fully coupled glide-climb crystal plasticity model, whereby climb is controlled by the diffusion of vacancies. An extended strain gradient crystal plasticity model is therefore proposed, which incorporates the climbing of dislocations in the governing transport equations. A global-local approach is adopted to separate the scales and assess the influence of local diffusion on the global plasticity problem. The kinematics of the crystal plasticity model is enriched by incorporating the climb kinematics in the crystallographic split of the plastic strain rate tensor. The potential of the fully coupled theory is illustrated by means of two single slip examples that illustrate the interaction between glide and climb in either bypassing a precipitate or destroying a dislocation pile-up.

Mots clés: Crystal plasticity; Dislocation climb; Vacancy diffusion; Dislocation pile-ups; Strain gradient

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Matériaux

M.G.D. Geers, M. Cottura, Benoit Appolaire, Esteban P. Busso, Samuel Forest, et al.. Coupled glide-climb diffusion-enhanced crystal plasticity. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2014, 70, pp.136-153. ⟨10.1016/j.jmps.2014.05.007⟩. ⟨hal-01056876⟩