“…Serrated flow [1], or the Portevin-Le Chatelier (PLC) effect [2], viewed in the stressstrain curve during plastic deformation is a plastic instability behavior that has been studied in various kinds of aluminum alloys [3,4], nickel-based superalloys [5][6][7], magnesium alloys [8][9][10], and steel [11][12][13][14]. The primary characteristic of the PLC effect is a serrated oscillation pattern in tensile curves after achieving the yield point resulting from repetitive nucleation and the development of localized deformation regions [15,16]. The dynamicstrain-aging (DSA) interaction between mobile dislocations and solute atom clouds during plastic deformation has been widely accepted as an explanation for the serrations of the stress-strain curve during static tensile tests.…”