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We demonstrate that a deforming metal is a self organizing critical system, and that the stress-strain law can be expressed as an integration of certain derivatives of internal variables along the critical line of the system.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
critical system, dislocations, percolation, plastic deformation, self organizing, work hardening