This paper is concerned with the interaction between an interfacial edge-crack and a screw dislocation under out-of-plane mechanical and in-plane electric loading in a piezoelectric bimaterial strip. In addition to a discontinuous electric potential across the slip plane, the dislocation is subjected to a line-force and a line-charge at the core. Under the framework of linear piezoelectricity, ...

Predicting atomistic properties of a dislocation is a first step toward an understanding of plastic behavior of materials, in particular BCC metals. The core structure and Peierls stress of a screw dislocation in BCC iron have been determined using the first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory with the large-scale supercell containing 231 atoms. For the a0/2[111] scre...

Hierarchical nanostructures of lead sulfide nanowires resembling pine trees were synthesized by chemical vapor deposition. Structural characterization revealed a screwlike dislocation in the nanowire trunks with helically rotating epitaxial branch nanowires. It is suggested that the screw component of an axial dislocation provides the self-perpetuating steps to enable one-dimensional crystal gr...

On the basis of first-principles Monte Carlo simulations we find that the screw dislocation along the hexagonal axis of an hcp 4He crystal features a superfluid (at T-->0) core. This is the first example of a regular quasi-one-dimensional supersolid--the phase featuring both translational and superfluid orders, and one of the cleanest cases of a Luttinger-liquid system. In contrast, the same ty...

2014 The stability of a screw dislocation in a SmA phase submitted to a dilative or compressive strain normal to the layers is investigated. It is shown that the screw line transforms to a helical line, whose handedness depends on the signs of the Burgers’ vector and of the strain. For small strains the process necessitates some activation energy; there is a critical strain above which it is sp...

The governing equation of screw dislocations in heterostructures is constructed using image method. The interface type (−1 ≤ γ ≤ 1) and distance between dislocation and interface h are considered in the new equation. The Peierls–Nabarro equations for screw dislocations in bulk and semi-infinite materials can be recovered when γ = 0 and γ = −1. The soft (γ < 0) and hard (γ > 0) interfaces can en...

The problem of several finite moving cracks in a functionally graded material is solved by dislocation technique under the condition of anti-plane deformation. By using the Fourier transform the stress fields are obtained for a functionally graded strip containing a screw dislocation. The stress components reveal the familiar Cauchy singularity at the location of dislocation. The solution is em...

We explain the geometrical meaning of the metric of space-time. Then, we derive the light deflection caused by the screw dislocation in space-time. The derivation is based on the idea that space-time is a medium which can be deformed in such a way that the deformation of space-time is equivalent to the existence of metric which is equivalent to gravity. The existence of the screw dislocation in...

Nanoindentation has proved to be a technique capable of elucidating the mechanical properties of solid surfaces. Along with recent studies [1,2], our investigation deals with the initial stages of plastic deformation in a solid. In previous works [3,4] we have recognized and characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) the generation around a nanoindentation trace in Au(001) of two type...