On completion of this tutorial you should:
- appreciate that slip occurs on a given slip system when the resolved shear stress on that system reaches a critical value
- be able to calculate and predict slip behaviour in simple situations
- understand how slip geometry changes as slip proceeds
- understand the phenomena of geometric softening and work hardening and their effect on slip in hexagonal close packed crystals, cubic close packed crystals and polycrystalline materials
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