Convergence of interaction-driven evolutions of dislocations with Wasserstein dissipation and slip-plane confinement

2014/09/15 by Mora, Maria Giovanna, Peletier, Mark, Scardia, Lucia · 1 citation
#Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1409.4236

Abstract

We consider systems of n parallel edge dislocations in a single slip system, represented by points in a two-dimensional domain; the elastic medium is modelled as a continuum. We formulate the energy of this system in terms of the empirical measure of the dislocations, and prove several convergence results in the limit n→∞. The main aim of the paper is to study the convergence of the evolution of the empirical measure as n→∞. We consider rate-independent, quasi-static evolutions, in which the motion of the dislocations is restricted to the same slip plane. This leads to a formulation of the quasi-static evolution problem in terms of a modified Wasserstein distance, which is only finite when the transport plan is slip-plane-confined. Since the focus is on interaction between dislocations, we renormalize the elastic energy to remove the potentially large self- or core energy. We prove Gamma-convergence of this renormalized energy, and we construct joint recovery sequences for which both the energies and the modified distances converge. With this augmented Gamma-convergence we prove the convergence of the quasi-static evolutions as n→∞.

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