The internal stresses induced by the strain gradients in an array of lattice cells delineated by low-angle dislocation boundaries are partially relieved by the creation of new low-angle boundaries. This is shown to be a first-order transition, the new boundaries having finite misorientations. The calculated misorientations both of the new boundaries and of the existing boundaries which provoke the transition agree well with observations.
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Nabarro, FRN and Wilsdorf, DK. 1997. Nucleation of small angle boundaries. Scripta materia, vol 35(11), pp 1332-1333
Nabarro, F., & Wilsdorf, D. (1996). Nucleation of small angle boundaries. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1524
Nabarro, FRN, and DK Wilsdorf "Nucleation of small angle boundaries." (1996) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1524
Nabarro F, Wilsdorf D. Nucleation of small angle boundaries. 1996; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1524.