“…Hardening of slip systems is based on the rate of dislocation storage, which is a thermally activated mechanism and, hence, it is dependent on temperature and also on strain rate. In several prior studies, a similar hardening model has been successfully applied to a range of metals involving different crystal structure: hexagonal close packed (HCP) Zr (Beyerlein and Tomé, 2008;Knezevic et al, 2013b;Knezevic and Landry, 2015;Knezevic et al, 2014e;, Be (Brown et al, 2012;Knezevic et al, 2013a;Zecevic et al, 2015a), Mg (Beyerlein et al, 2011;Lentz et al, 2015a;Lentz et al, 2015b), body centered cubic (BCC) Ta (Ardeljan et al, 2014a;Ardeljan et al, 2015a;Ardeljan et al, 2014b;Bhattacharyya et al, 2015;Knezevic et al, 2014e), face centered cubic (FCC) alloys (Knezevic et al, 2014b;Zecevic and Knezevic, 2015), and orthorhombic uranium (Ardeljan et al, 2015b;Knezevic et al, 2012;Knezevic et al, 2013d;Knezevic et al, 2013e). In this model, the slip resistance is defined as:…”