The feasibility of describing ordered dislocation networks in crystals in terms of approaches inherent to percolation theory was investigated theoretically. The free energy of dislocation networks forming clusters was calculated by using the methods of percolation theory, involving the Ising and Potts models and the Onsager solution.

Approaches of the Percolation Theory and the Free Energy of Dislocation Clusters. V.A.Ivanskoi: Technical Physics, 2008, 53[4], 455-61