Meanings
nounPeierls stress (countable and uncountable, plural Peierls stresses)
plural Peierls stresses
- countableuncountableThe force needed to move a dislocation within a plane of atoms in the unit cell.
Origin
First discovered by Rudolf Peierls.
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