Dislocations

Dislocated shoulder; Dislocation

For the syntactic operation, see Dislocation (syntax) For the medical term, see Dislocation (medicine) In materials science, a dislocation is a linear crystallographic defect, or irregularity, within a crystal structure. The presence of dislocations strongly influences many of the properties of real materials. The theory was originally developed by Vito Volterra in 1905. Some types of dislocations can be visualised as being caused by the termination of a plane of atoms in the middle of a c ...