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Scale-free statistics of plasticity-induced surface steps on KCl single crystals

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Jan Schwerdtfeger1, Edward Nadgorny1,2, Frederic Madani-Grasset1, Vasileios Koutsos1, Jane R Blackford1 and Michael Zaiser1,2

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Experimental investigations of plastic flow have demonstrated temporal intermittency as deformation proceeds in a series of intermittent bursts with scale-free size distribution. In the present investigation, a corresponding spatial intermittency is demonstrated for plastic flow of KCl single crystals. Deformation bursts lead to large surface steps with a height distribution that is consistent with the distribution of strain increments in deformation of micron-size samples and the energy distribution of acoustic emission bursts observed in deformation of macroscopic single-crystal samples of a wide class of materials.


Keywords

plasticity (experiment)

avalanches (experiment)

 

E-print Number: cond-mat/0611470

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PACS

68.35.B- Structure of clean surfaces (and surface reconstruction)

68.35.Gy Mechanical properties; surface strains

81.40.Lm Deformation, plasticity, and creep

62.20.F- Deformation and plasticity

81.40.Jj Elasticity and anelasticity, stress-strain relations

MSC

74Cxx Plastic materials, materials of stress-rate and internal-variable type

74A50 Structured surfaces and interfaces, coexistent phases

Subjects

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 04 (April 2007)

Received 10 January 2007, accepted for publication 22 March 2007

Published 3 April 2007



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