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Plastic Deformation

· The form of work hardening for the different crystal structures depends upon the number of slip systems on which dislocation motion is taking place.

From: Hayden, Moffatt & Wulff, "The Structure & Properties of Materials," Wiley (1965)

· The slip systems for an hcp single crystal are shown. Dislocation motion occurs on the parallel (0001) basal planes in the three possible <1120> directions.
· Dislocations on these parallel slip planes interact through their long-range elastic fields.