LXXXII. Edge dislocations in anisotropic materials

Abstract Burgers has discussed dislocations in materials with cubic symmetry for the general case in which the dislocation axis is an arbitrary curve. The results of the present paper are limited to dislocations of edge type with an infinite straight line as axis, but apply to a material with the symmetry of any of the crystal classes. The axis of the dislocation may be arbitrarily inclined to the symmetry axes of the material. Expressions are given for the elastic displacements and the energy of the dislocation. Nabarro's calculation of the width of a dislocation is extended to the anisotropic case.