Publisher's Synopsis
This volume begins with a review of a recent development, the study of the electrical noise associated with the presence and motion of dislocations and point defects during plastic deformation. The second chapter gives a detailed account of the mechanisms which resist the motion of a dislocation through the crystal lattice, a topic which is fundamental to any dynamical theory of plastic deformation. This is followed by a review of the properties of dislocations in covalent crystals which display the remarkable interaction between the mechanical and electrical properties of dislocations in semiconductors. The last two chapters are concerned with more direct applications, such as the formation and evolution of dislocation structures during radiation damage and how the role of dislocations in martenistic transformations can now be discussed in a quantitative study of the influence of dislocations on martensitic transformations.
