Equilibrium of extended dislocations within edge dislocation dipoles

Abstract
It is shown that extended edge dislocations tend to contract into unit dislocations when they are components of a dipole (pair of opposite signs). If the half-width of an isolated extended dislocation is s∗, rapid contraction begins when the dipole glide-plane spacing becomes less than about 2s∗.
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