“…Another type of slip localization band observed in deformed crystals, associated with high lattice rotation and orthogonal to the glide direction, is the so-called kink band. Kink bands are reported as a late deformation mode of metallic single crystals [1,3], in strongly anisotropic hexagonal crystals such as ice or Zinc [4,5,6,7,8], as a crack-tip localization mode [9,10,11] or for titanium alloys under high strain rate deformation [12]. Asaro and Rice bifurcation analysis [13] showed that in presence of strain softening the constitutive equations of crystal plasticity can predict both localization modes, and a few authors have studied the formation of kink 15 bands in crystal plasticity simulations [14,15,16,5].…”