Edge dislocation core structure and the peierls barrier in body‐centered cubic iron

Abstract The core structure and Peierls barrier for an edge dislocation lying in the {110} plane with Burgers vector along 〈111〉 in body‐centered cubic iron were investigated numerically with the aid of a high speed computer using an anharmonic potential. The core radius is about 5 Å and the corresponding core energy is 2.7 eV per identity distance along the dislocation line (six atom planes). The Peierls barrier is about 0.03 eV and the Peierls stress for dislocation motion at absolute zero is computed to be 5.36 × 10 9 dyn/cm 2 or 0.0066 of the shear modulus.