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Science 27 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5884, pp. 1729 - 1730
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160003
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The Statistical Mechanics of Strain-Hardened Metals

Anter El-Azab

The average distance that dislocations in crystals travel before freezing into place is a key quantity in describing how metals harden when strained.

School of Computational Science and Materials Science and Engineering Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. E-mail: anter{at}scs.fsu.edu

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