| 1. | The stresses caused by an edge dislocation are complex due to its inherent asymmetry.
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| 2. | Edge dislocations form so called tilt walls, while screw dislocations form twist walls.
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| 3. | Slip occurs by dislocation glide of either screw or edge dislocations within a slip plane.
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| 4. | Edge dislocations form the edge of an extra layer of atoms inside the crystal lattice.
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| 5. | Edge dislocations are caused by the termination of a plane of atoms in the middle of a crystal.
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| 6. | There are two types of dislocations in crystals that can induce slip-edge dislocations and screw dislocations.
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| 7. | A pure edge dislocation is shown at the island interface to illustrate the relieved structure of the cluster.
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| 8. | In the case of an edge dislocation, a half plane of atoms is wedged between two planes of atoms.
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| 9. | Another crude analogy : Think of a crystal with line defects ( edge dislocations and screw dislocations but not disclinations ).
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| 10. | Where the orientation of the dislocation line changes, a screw dislocation can continue as an edge dislocation and vice versa.
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