Modern Differential Geometric Techniques in the Theory of Continuous Distributions of Dislocations

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733 Frederick Bloom

Modern Differential Geometric Techniques in the Theory of Continuous Distributions of Dislocations

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1979

Author Frederick Bloom Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. 29208 USA

A M S Subject Classifications (1970): Primary: 7 3 S 0 5 Secondary: 53 C10 ISBN 3 - 5 4 0 - 0 9 5 2 8 - 4 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg NewYork ISBN 0 - 3 8 7 - 0 9 5 2 8 - 4 Springer-Verlag NewYork Heidelberg Berlin Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bloom, Frederick, 1944 Modern differential geometric techniques in the theory of continuous distributions of dislocations. (Lecture notes in mathematics ; 733) Bbiliography: p. Includes index. 1. Dislocations in crystals. 2. Geometry, Differential. 3. G-structures. I. Title. II. Series: Lecture notes in mathematics (Berlin) ; 733. OD921.B56 548'.842 79-9374 ISBN 0-387-09528-4 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publisher, the amount of the fee to be determined by agreement with the publisheJ © by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1979 Printed in Germany Printing and binding: Beltz Offsetdruck, Hemsbach/Bergstr. 2141/3140-543210

FOR

HARRY

AND

MORDECHAI

Preface Among research workers

in mechanics

ematics there has been great interest, decades,

and applied math-

in the past two

in the area of continuum theories

More recently,

of dislocations.

attention has turned to the more difficult

problem connected with the motion of dislocations a continuum and its relation to various plasticity

formulations

theory for a body possessing

effort to formulate a continuous

dislocations was made by Kondo prescribing,

characterize

distribution

on the basis of certain heuristic

geometric

structures

a geometric

of the dislocation

was any serious

given to the types of constitutive

such as

which then served to

similar efforts were made by Bilby and by Kroner in none these theories

in

arguments,

on the body manifold,

certain properties

of

([ I ],[ 2 ]) and consisted

a metric and an affine connection,

however,

of

theory.

The first comprehensive

various

through

equations

distribution;

([3 ], [4 ]), consideration

which may be

associated with the body manifold. A new approach to the problem was made by Noll

[ 5 ] in

the early sixties and was later extended by Noll [ 6 ] and by Wang [ 7 ]. constitutive manifold

Here one starts with the prescription equation for particles

of a

belonging to the body

and, using the concept of a uniform reference,

VI develops

a geometric theory which in many ways

to those considered by Kondo, work differs

Bilby,

is isomorphic

and K