Abstract
The elastic interaction between dislocations causes forest and glide dislocations to combine over part of their length. It is shown that this tendency to combine is drastically reduced when the glide dislocation is moving fast. For example, Lomer–Cottrell dislocation interactions in the f.c.c. lattice will be less than half formed at speeds of two-fifths of the velocity of sound. The disappearance of resistive stresses produced by these inter-actions at high speeds can thus give rise to instabilities in plastic flow. Applications to deformation twinning and discontinuous slip are discussed.

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