Fig. 12

Relaxation procedure for one configuration from the ensemble. The unit of the axes in (a) to (c) is the magnitude of the Burgers vector b. Initial configuration with 50 randomly distributed single slip glide loops (a), configuration with maximum dislocation density and external stress (b), relaxed configuration where dislocation activity is close to negligible with simulation time (c), variation of dislocation density and plastic strain with simulation time (d)