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Main Authors: Jian, Wu-Rong, Wang, Yifan, Cai, Wei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06512
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author Jian, Wu-Rong
Wang, Yifan
Cai, Wei
author_facet Jian, Wu-Rong
Wang, Yifan
Cai, Wei
contents Dislocation jogs have strong effects on dislocation motion that governs the strain-hardening behavior of crystalline solids, but how to properly account for their effect in mesoscale models remains poorly understood. We develop a mobility model for jogged edge dislocations in FCC nickel, based on systematic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations across a range of jog configurations, stresses, and temperatures. At low stresses, jogged edge dislocations exhibit non-linear, thermally activated dragging and a higher Peierls barrier compared to straight dislocations. Surprisingly, stress-velocity curves for a given jog configuration across varying temperatures intersect at an invariant point ($τ_{\rm c}$, $v_{\rm c}$), where $τ_{\rm c}$ delineates thermally-activated and phonon-drag regimes and is close to the Peierls stress ($τ_{\rm p}$). Motivated by this observation, we propose a simple three-section expression for jogged dislocation mobility, featuring minimal and physically interpretable parameters. This mobility law offers a realistic description of jog effects for dislocation dynamics (DD) simulations, improving their physical fidelity for crystal plasticity predictions.
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spellingShingle Non-linear jog-dragging effect on the mobility law of edge dislocations in face-centered cubic nickel
Jian, Wu-Rong
Wang, Yifan
Cai, Wei
Materials Science
Dislocation jogs have strong effects on dislocation motion that governs the strain-hardening behavior of crystalline solids, but how to properly account for their effect in mesoscale models remains poorly understood. We develop a mobility model for jogged edge dislocations in FCC nickel, based on systematic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations across a range of jog configurations, stresses, and temperatures. At low stresses, jogged edge dislocations exhibit non-linear, thermally activated dragging and a higher Peierls barrier compared to straight dislocations. Surprisingly, stress-velocity curves for a given jog configuration across varying temperatures intersect at an invariant point ($τ_{\rm c}$, $v_{\rm c}$), where $τ_{\rm c}$ delineates thermally-activated and phonon-drag regimes and is close to the Peierls stress ($τ_{\rm p}$). Motivated by this observation, we propose a simple three-section expression for jogged dislocation mobility, featuring minimal and physically interpretable parameters. This mobility law offers a realistic description of jog effects for dislocation dynamics (DD) simulations, improving their physical fidelity for crystal plasticity predictions.
title Non-linear jog-dragging effect on the mobility law of edge dislocations in face-centered cubic nickel
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06512