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Substitutional Defects and Dislocation Interactions

The document describes 5 types of point defects in materials: vacancies, substitutional defects where the impurity atom's radius is smaller than the host, substitutional defects where the radius is larger, impurity interstitials, and self-interstitials. Based on how these defects interact mechanically with edge dislocations, the document categorizes them as preferring the region above the dislocation, preferring the region below it, or being indifferent to the two regions.

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Substitutional Defects and Dislocation Interactions

The document describes 5 types of point defects in materials: vacancies, substitutional defects where the impurity atom's radius is smaller than the host, substitutional defects where the radius is larger, impurity interstitials, and self-interstitials. Based on how these defects interact mechanically with edge dislocations, the document categorizes them as preferring the region above the dislocation, preferring the region below it, or being indifferent to the two regions.

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Assignment #4

Consider the following point defects (r and rhost denote the atomic radii of the impurity atom and
host atom respectively):
1. Vacancy
2. Substitional (r < rhost)
3. Substitional (r > rhost)
4. Impurity-interstitial
5. Self-interstitial

Based on their interactions with the edge dislocation (see figure below) – assuming the
interaction is purely mechanical in nature, categorize those point defects into Table I.
Table I

Interaction with dislocation Type of the defect

Prefer to stay in the shaded 1. Vacancy


region above the dislocation 2. Substitional (r<r_host)

Prefer to stay in the shaded 3. Substitional (r>r_host)


region below the dislocation 4. Impurity-interstitial
5. Self-interstitial

Indifferent to the two shaded None


regions

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