Using two different kinds of many-body potentials as well as the Lennard-Jones potential for hexagonal close packed metals, we have found that c + a edge dislocations with dislocation lines along 1 100 can split onto the basal plane, forming a non-planar sessile structure. The 'type I' undissociated dislocation core, observed in previous papers, is shown to be stable only for small simulations. The observed dissociated core structure has a large distorted region that we interpret as a (11 21) twin nucleus, which may help the formation of (11 21) tension twins. We also find that this core structure is lower in energy than the previously observed glissile 'type II' configuration, dissociated on the (11 22) plane. The sessile splitting of the core gives rise to non-Schmid behaviour, with the twin nucleus expanding under c-axis tension, and contracting under compression.
It is usual to assume that the "velocity gradient" Lp associated with slip is KZ 1 a, 0 nK, where y, is the rate of shear of the Kth slip system defined by the slip direction so and the normal to the plane n,. The above expression, written directly as the linear superposition of instantaneous rates of shear over all the active slip systems, is motivated both by experiments and the single slip case. On the other hand, one might assume that the deformation gradient Fp has a multiplicative decomposition, but here the sequence of activation of the slip systems becomes important. These representations for Fp and Lp should be viewed as constraints, and they are consistent for linearized theories and proportional deformations but not for all deformations; that is, not all deformations for which LP has the above form can one express Fp as a product of deformation gradients associated with each of the slip systems. In this paper, we discuss sufficient conditions under which the two constraints are equivalent, and we also provide a sufficient condition that guarantees that the form for the plastic deformation gradient is independent of the sequence of activation.
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