Interaction between an edge dislocation and a circular inclusion with interface slip and diffusion Original Research Article

We investigate in detail the transient response induced by an edge dislocation near a circular elastic inclusion with simultaneous interface slip and diffusion. A rigorous solution to the interaction problem is derived in series form. As the time approaches infinity, our solution just recovers the classical one derived by Srolovitz et al. (Acta Metall 1984;32:1079) for fully relaxed boundary conditions. In addition, we observe that the edge dislocation will induce a uniform rigid-body rotation in the inclusion as the time approaches infinity. When the dislocation is far away from the inclusion, simple asymptotic expressions of the glide and climb forces on the dislocation are also obtained. Furthermore, five extreme cases for the imperfect interface are discussed; in particular, we derive approximate closed-form expressions of the decaying internal stress field within the inclusion and the image force on the dislocation for long-range stress relaxations when the interface diffusion occurs much faster than the interface slip and vice versa. Some interesting physical behaviors are observed.