Dynamics of an isolated edge dislocation

This is work by Alexey Kuksin, Vladimir Stegailov and Alexey Yanilkin (Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences).

The animation shows the propagation of an isolated edge dislocation in fcc aluminum under shear deformation. Only atoms in the dislocation glide plane are shown. Atoms are colored by their centro-symmetry parameter (blue/yellow colors correspond to perfect fcc/stacking fault structures). The visualization was done with the AtomEye program.