It was recalled that a material with a smoothly distributed microstructure could be viewed geometrically as being a fiber bundle. Within this general framework, it was shown that a theory of continuous dislocation distributions could be formulated and applied to specific applications.

Continuous Distributions of Dislocations in Bodies with Microstructure. M.Epstein, I.Bucataru: Journal of Elasticity, 2003, 70[1-3], 237-54