“…The jerky-flow phenomenon in alloys has been well studied experimentally, for instance by Beukel and Kocks (1982), Kubin et al (1992), Nagornih et al (1993), Toyooka et al (2001), Deryugin et al (2001), Casarotto et al (2003), Klose et al (2003), Nemat-Nasser and Guo (2005), and attributed to the formation of localized deformation bands at the meso scale. As a special case of such an anomalous behavior, Lüders band propagation is characterized by single displacement of macroscopic localization zone along the test piece.…”