Disclinations provide the missing mechanism for deforming olivine-rich rocks in the mantle

The deformation of plastically non-homogeneous materials

Michael F. Ashby · Philosophical magazine · 1970 · 4.1K citations

Engineering, Severe Plastic Deformation, Mechanical Engineering +17

Effects of couple-stresses in linear elasticity

R. D. Mindlin, H. F. Tiersten · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis · 1962 · 2.5K citations

Nonlinear Elasticity, Engineering, Elasticity (Physics) +7

Strength of the lithosphere: Constraints imposed by laboratory experiments

D. L. Kohlstedt, Brian Evans, S. J. Mackwell · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1995 · 1.6K citations · Full text

Resolving the geometrically necessary dislocation content by conventional electron backscattering diffraction

Wolfgang Pantleon · Scripta Materialia · 2008 · 861 citations

Materials Science, Engineering, Dislocation Interaction +9

Experimental constraints on the dynamics of the partially molten upper mantle: Deformation in the diffusion creep regime

Greg Hirth, D. L. Kohlstedt · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1995 · 554 citations · Full text

Engineering, Mantle Dynamic, Severe Plastic Deformation +19