Geometrically necessary dislocations are like-signed dislocations needed to accommodate for plastic bending in a crystalline material.[1] They are present when a material's plastic deformation is accompanied by internal plastic strain gradients.[2] They are in contrast to statistically stored dislocations, with statistics of equal positive and negative signs, which arise during plastic flow from multiplication processes like the Frank-Read source.
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