Scale-free statistics of plasticity-induced surface steps on KCl single crystals
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2007
Abstract
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. © 2007 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.
Publication Title
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Recommended Citation
Schwerdtfeger, J.,
Nadgorny, E.,
Madani-Grasset, F.,
Koutsos, V.,
Blackford, J.,
&
Zaiser, M.
(2007).
Scale-free statistics of plasticity-induced surface steps on KCl single crystals.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment(4).
http://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2007/04/L04001
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