A brief response to ‘Intermittent plastic flow of single crystals: central problems in plasticity: A review’,by M. Niewczas

Abstract

Issues raised by Niewczas are addressed.

Keywords

Plastic flow Work hardening Copper single crystals Dislocation substructure Microstructural instabilities Deformation bands Electrical resistivity Dislocation density Constitutive relations Dislocation mean free path Mean slip distance Self-organised criticality

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