The effect, upon the length distribution of dislocation segments, of intermolecular interactions between point defects which acted as moving pinning points for the dislocations, was examined. The distribution function was analyzed by means of Monte Carlo numerical modelling. It was shown that the length distribution could be described, in the absence of external stresses, by an exponential function that could differ from the Kohler function at high defect concentrations. The intermolecular interactions of defects changed the distribution function so that this eventually became nearly exponential as well; but with different values of the parameters.

Modelling Dislocation-Segment Length Distributions. I.T.Suprun: Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, 1998, 41[4], 57-63 (Russian Physics Journal, 1998, 41[4], 346-52)