MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort

Surface tension-induced unique phenomena for edge dislocations in a free-standing thin film

2025· article· en· W4413840217 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicMicrostructure and mechanical properties
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsMaterials scienceEnhanced Data Rates for GSM EvolutionSurface tensionTension (geology)Composite materialCondensed matter physicsOpticsPhysicsComputer scienceThermodynamicsCompression (physics)Artificial intelligence

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

We explore the effects of surface tension and surface elasticity on the elastic behavior of a line edge dislocation buried in a free-standing thin film. Using specific conformal mappings, we derive semi-analytic solutions for the dislocation-induced stress field in the film and the image force acting on the dislocation. It is shown that surface tension and surface elasticity are responsible for significant tractions on the film surface and therefore make an important contribution to the dislocation-induced stress field in the film and to the mobility of the dislocation when the film thickness approaches the nanoscale. In terms of the moving tendency and mobility of the dislocation (defined by the image force acting on the dislocation), it is identified that the effects of surface elasticity always play the role of reducing its mobility without reversing its moving tendency, while those of surface tension would reverse the moving tendency or increase the mobility in certain specific cases. In particular, it is found that for an edge dislocation located on the mid-plane of the film, when the Burgers vector or slip plane of the dislocation is parallel or at a small angle to the surface of the film, the presence of surface tension can alter the dislocation’s equilibrium from a stable to an unstable state as the thickness of the film decreases from the macroscale to the nanoscale (which, incidentally, cannot be achieved by the separate contribution of surface elasticity alone).

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.441
Threshold uncertainty score0.656

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.234 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it