The LEDS theory was briefly surveyed, and was shown to predict: that the partitioning of stress-strain curves into the commonly recognized work-hardening stages was caused by LEDS transformations which lowered the energy per unit length of dislocation line in accordance with the LEDS hypothesis, that (to a first approximation) the rate of glide dislocation trapping decreased linearly with the applied stress, that such trapping was the dominant cause of work-hardening (and that therefore the work-hardening coefficient tended to decrease linearly with the flow stress), that this behavior gave rise to tensile true-stress versus true-strain curves which were sequences of Voce curves (correlated with specific LEDS types), that the Voce parameters could therefore be connected with measurable parameters of the dislocation microstructure, that superposed on the Voce curves were gradual changes in the so-called frictional stress (composed of Hall-Petch, solid solution and particle hardening), that the Hall-Petch relationship had a simple general basis regardless of the specific prevailing LEDS structure, that other components of frictional stress which were specifically due to solid-solution and precipitation hardening should not attract so much attention as in the past (since the corresponding physical effects could greatly affect the Voce parameters and thus dwarf the respective contributions to the frictional stress), that simple regularities existed regarding the Voce parameters and which could be studied via a combination of transmission electron microscopic investigations (plus slip-line determinations, X-ray studies and calorimetry), and that by means of such studies the construction of equations of state would become possible for wide ranges of strain, strain-rate and temperature.

Modelling of Plastic Deformation via Segmented Voce Curves, Linked to Characteristic LEDSs which were Generated by LEDS Transformations between Work-Hardening Stages. D.Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf: Physica Status Solidi A, 1995, 149[1], 131-53