Improving Crystal Plasticity Models with Dislocation Dynamics Simulations
Plastic deformation of crystalline materials is mainly the outcome of the dynamics and the collective interactions of dislocations, in response to external or internal load, their mutual interactions and interactions with boundaries such as free surfaces, interfaces or grain boundaries.
The dislocation microstructures emerging from such dynamics are intrinsically heterogeneous and the way they affect the mechanical properties is a puzzling problem. This is why, the development of constitutive equations for the modeling of this multiscale problem is very challenging. After two decades of developments, three-dimensional Discrete Dislocation Dynamics (3D-DDD) simulation emerges as an essential tool to investigate those questions.