A study of large plastic deformation of crystalline aggregates. The book is aimed at postgraduates, researchers and engineers, and covers experimental aspects of crystal plasticity, dislocation modelling of crystalline plasticity and large plastic deformation of polycrystals.

for the computation of the elastic states of dislocation loops by means of straight dislocation data. Chapter III presents the main results obtained so far in describing non-linear effects in the elastic field of straight dislocations, as well as in the study of the core configuration of dislocations by using semidiscrete methods. Chapter IV is devoted to the linear and non-linear theory of continuous distri- butions of dislocations and to its application to investigating the influence of dislo- cations on crystal density and on the low-temperature thermal conductivity of crystals. Chapter V...