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Understanding Dislocations and Defects by Bhavesh Mendhekar is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses different types of imperfections in crystalline materials including point, line, surface, and volume imperfections. It focuses on describing line imperfections known as dislocations, including edge dislocations which involve an extra half plane of atoms, screw dislocations which involve a spiral path of atoms, and mixed dislocations. It explains how the magnitude and direction of lattice distortion caused by a dislocation is characterized by its Burgers vector.
- Author
- Bhavesh Mendhekar
- Language
- EN