Groh S., Zbib H.M. Advances in Discrete Dislocations Dynamics and Multiscale Modeling

Article, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Vol. 131, October 2009. 10 pp.
Discrete dislocation dynamics is a numerical tool developed to model the plasticity of crystalline materials at an intermediate length scale, between the atomistic modelling and the crystal plasticity theory. In this review we show, using examples from the literature, how a discrete dislocation model can be used either in a hierarchical or a concurrent multiscale framework. In the last section of this review, we show through the uniaxial compression of microcrystal application, how a concurrent multiscale model involving a discrete dislocation framework can be used for predictive purposes.