DISLOCATION REACTIONS

(M.G University M.Sc Physics Semester III )

Vijeesh P.
Department of Physics
The Cochin College
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Vijeesh P.
Department of Physics
The Cochin College
 Dislocation Rection
•  Dislocation is associated with elastic strain .( Either compressive as in
edge or shear as in screw dislocations)
• The strain energy E per unit length of a dislocation of Burgers vector b
is approximately given by
is the shear modulus
A dislocation always tends to reduce the strain energy, ie. reduces the
burger vector as energy is proportional to square of burger vector
• Consider,
  for example, an edge dislocation in a simple cubic crystal,
where the unit translation vector is b.( A dislocation with burgers vector
equal to one lattice spacing is called dislocation of unit streangth)
• Let two incomplete planes be together on the slip plane so that the
Burger’s vector of this dislocation is b1=2b
• The two planes will have a tendency to break up as two separate planes,
that is the giant dislocation will tend to break up in to two dislocations
of Burger’s vectors b2=b and b3=b
• So the dislocation reaction is represented by b1-----b2+b3
• Corresponding energy change is
•
• The Elastic energy decreases by 50% during this break up.
•  In general, a dislocation with Burger’s vector b1 will tend to dissociate
in to two or more dislocatrions of Burger’s vector b2 and b3 if

• For the same reason, full dislocation tend to have the smallest lattice
translation as the Burger’s vector.
•  The strength of dislocation with Burger’s vector ao(u v w) is given by

• b=
• Adding Burger’s vector, follows vector addition rules
Determine Whether the dislocation reaction feasible or not?
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