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Materials science

second-order tensor that measures the net Burgers vector per unit area in a crystal and links lattice curvature to stored dislocations.

In materials science, Nye tensor refers to second-order tensor that measures the net Burgers vector per unit area in a crystal and links lattice curvature to stored dislocations. This meaning comes from Nye (1953) in Acta Metallurgica.[1]

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Burgers vector1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct crystal4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs curvature3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Nye, J. F. (1953). Some geometrical relations in dislocated crystals. Acta Metallurgica, 1(2), 153-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-6160(53)90054-6

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