Assimilated model of work-hardening in FCC metals and its application to devolution of stored work

The new assimilated work-hardening model encompasses the imposed strain condition that creates slipped areas bounded by dislocations, and work hardening is due to operation of multiple slip systems forming forest dislocations. The minimum slip plane spacing is geometrically determinable and compared with the lattice spacing permitted for the passage of dislocations of opposite signs on parallel planes. This calculable spacing from the flow …