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Theory of Strain Percolation in Metals

Published

Author(s)

R Thomson, Lyle E. Levine

Abstract

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
Ceramics and Biomaterials

Citation

Thomson, R. and Levine, L. (2021), Theory of Strain Percolation in Metals, Physical Review Letters (Accessed May 21, 2025)

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Created October 12, 2021