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Single grain simulations show evidence of grain splitting and locally larger rotations with an average rotation less than a Taylor model prediction. Continuous elastic rotation fields with sharp gradients (as in grain splitting) are computationally demonstrated within rigid viscoplasticity and non-singular dislocation distributions are calculated from these rotation fields. Computational evidence is shown for the enhancement of stress fields in the vicinity of delamination-prone grain boundaries. All of these results suggest that even the problem of size-independent macroscopic plasticity is spatially nonlocal in nature.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T21:26:13Z (GMT). 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