English Explanatory Dictionary

Peierls stress

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The force needed to move a dislocation within a plane of atoms in the unit cell.

Word forms

Peierls stress Peierls stresses

Etymology

First discovered by Rudolf Peierls.

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