Dislocations in gradient elasticity revisited

Abstract

In this paper, we consider dislocations in the framework of first as well as second gradient theory of elasticity. Using the Fourier transform, rigorous analytical solutions of the two-dimensional bi-Helmholtz and Helmholtz equations are derived in closed form for the displacement, elastic distortion, plastic distortion and dislocation density of screw and edge dislocations. In our framework, it was not necessary to use boundary conditions to fix constants of the solutions. The discontinuous parts of the displacement and plastic distortion are expressed in terms of two-dimensional as well as one-dimensional Fourier-type integrals. All other fields can be written in terms of modified Bessel functions.