Dislocation dynamics has been an intensive research subject in materials science and engineering due to the significant roles it plays in plastic deformation and the hardening of metals, fracture mechanics, and the fabrication of semiconductor thin films. However, a long-standing problem from the three-dimensional dislocation dynamics is that the motion and interaction of dislocation loops heavily depend on the loop-segment sizes, which substantially reduces the accuracy of simulation. We herein propose a new three-dimensional dislocation dynamics model together with its physical background. The proposed model incorporates the inherent interactions among differential dislocation segments. The simulation results on motion of Frank–Read sources demonstrate that the proposed model can resolve the paradoxical segment-dependent phenomenon in dislocation dynamics.
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