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From Volterra dislocations to strain-gradient plasticity

Raz Kupferman·Cy Maor
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We rigorously derive a strain-gradient model of plasticity as a $Γ$-limit of continuum bodies containing finitely-many edge-dislocations (in two dimensions). The key difference from previous such derivations is the elemental notion of a dislocation: we work in a continuum framework in which the lattice structure is represented by a smooth frame field, and the presence of a dislocation manifests in a circulation condition on that frame field; the resulting model is a Lagrangian approach with a multiplicative strain decomposition. The multiplicative nature of the geometric incompatibility generates many technical challenges, which require a systematic study of the geometry of bodies containing multiple dislocations, the definition of new notions of convergence, and the derivation of new geometric rigidity estimates pertinent to dislocated bodies. Our approach places the strain-gradient limit in a unified framework with other models of dislocations, which cannot be addressed within the "admissible strain" approach used in previous works.

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Raz Kupferman, Cy Maor. 2026-02-02. From Volterra dislocations to strain-gradient plasticity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-025-03195-z

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