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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 124, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.025503
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Experiments and simulations show that when an initially defect-free rigid crystal is subjected to deformation at a constant rate, irreversible plastic flow commences at the so-called yield point. The yield point is a weak function of the deformation rate, which is usually expressed as a power law with an extremely small nonuniversal exponent. We reanalyze a representative set of published data on nanometer sized, mostly defect-free Cu, Ni, and Au crystals in light of a recently proposed theory of yielding based on nucleation of stable stress-free regions inside the metastable rigid solid. The single relation derived here, which is not a power law, explains data covering 15 orders of magnitude in timescales.
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