Dislocations 2004: Scope of the conference
The dislocation community is represented by research groups spread over a number of countries and covering many different aspects. A focused International Conference should bring these various groups together to exchange on results recently emerged from fundamental research on dislocations and on their role in plasticity and other properties in all classes of materials.
Understanding the fundamentals of plastic deformation is indeed a longstanding challenge that has recently undergone a revival through the emergence of new issues, mainly driven by nanotechnologies, and through the development of new experimental and theoretical methods. Much of the recent achievements have benefited from spectacular advances in ab initio, large-scale atomistic and mesoscopic simulations. Approaches involving applications of statistical physics to dislocation systems have shed new light on the field, not to mention a variety of experimental techniques including X-ray diffraction, TEM and AFM.
The conference is opened to classical issues such as patterning, strain or irradiation hardening, fatigue, etc.... Contributions on recent aspects, from theoretical topics to industrial applications will be welcome.