Practical Electron Microscopy and Database

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Extra Energy Introduced by Dislocations

The extra energy associated with the elastic distortion introduced by a dislocation can be given by,          E ≈ µb2 -------------------------- [2078] where,          µ -- The shear modulus;          b -- The magnitude of the Burgers vector.