microMegas (mM)

Abstract

MicroMegas is a 3-D DDD (Discrete Dislocation Dynamics) simulation. MicroMegas (also known as 'mM') is an open source program for DD (Dislocation Dynamics) simulations originally developed at the 'Laboratoire d'Etude des Microstructures', CNRS-ONERA, France. mM is a free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. Discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) is a numerical tool used to model the plastic behavior of crystalline materials using the elastic theory of dislocations. DDD is the computational counterpart to in site TEM tests. MicroMegas is a legacy simulation code used to study the plasticity of mono-crystalline metals, based on the elasticity theory that models the dislocation interactions into an elastic continuum. In crystalline materials, plastic deformation may be explained by (i) twinning, (ii) martensic transformation or/and (iii) dislocation interactions.