One of the ultimate goals in particle accelerator cavity design is to establish a model that integrates the grain orientations of an ingot slice, slip activity during deep drawing, and dislocation substructure evolution because of slip system interactions, which governs subsequent recrystallization. In order to understand the slip behavior during deep drawing of large grain Nb, it is fi rst nec...

The article outlines the main findings and conclusions of the QUAKER research project and other related studies on the behaviour of foundations built on top of a rupturing dip-slip fault. Although emphasis is placed on normal faults, the derived conclusions are valid for reverse faults, as well. A key conclusion is that it is quite feasible to design a foundation to withstand an underneath rupt...

Line integral forms for the elastic field of dislocations in anisotropic, multilayer materials are developed and utilized in Parametric Dislocation Dynamics (PDD) computer simulations. Developed equations account for interface image forces on dislocations as a result of elastic modulus mismatch between adjacent layers. The method is applied to study dislocation motion in multilayer thin films. ...

We compare mechanical strength of f.c.c. gold and b.c.c. molybdenum single crystal pillars of sub-micrometer diameter in uniaxial compression ests. Both crystals show an increase of flow stress with decreasing diameter, but the change is more pronounced in Au than in Mo. The ratio etween the observed maximum flow stress and the theoretical strength is much larger in Au pillars than in Mo pillar...

Using a dislocations-based model of slip and crystal plasticity, we show by illustrative examples that the experimentally observed increase in the yield stress of very thin metallic membranes most likely is due to the variation of grain orientations through the thickness of the membrane, as well as the surface hardness due to oxidation or contamination, both of which generally are insignificant...

The Pasadena earthquake (ML ~4.9) occurred on 3 December 1988, at a depth of 16 km. The hypocenters of the earthquake and its aftershocks define a eastnortheast striking, steeply northwest-dipping surface that projects up to the active surficial trace of the Raymond fault. One of the nodal planes of the focal mechanism of the earthquake parallels the Raymond fault with left-lateral strikeslip m...

The phase-field approach to dislocations is conceptually advanced. Large strain formulation is developed. A local thermodynamic potential eliminates stress dependence of the Burgers vector and reproduces the desired local stress-strain curve, as well as the desired, mesh-independent, dislocation height for any dislocation orientation. A gradient energy contains an additional term, which exclude...

Dislocation dynamics simulations of the interaction between prismatic dipolar loops and a glide screw dislocation are presented. As a result of stress gradients generated by the glide dislocation, dipolar loops execute drift motion along their glide cylinders. Simulations of the combined motion of two dipolar loops in the stress field of a glide dislocation clearly show that inter-loop forces a...