“…Thus, the energy barrier for the motion of screw segments, and the attendant Peierls stress, may be expected to be large, and the energy barrier for the motion of edge segments to be comparatively smaller. This suggests that the rate-limiting mechanism for dislocation motion is the thermally activated motion of kinks along screw segments ( [3,4,5]). At sufficiently high temperatures and under the application of a resolved shear stress r > 0, a doublekink may be nucleated with the assistance of thermal activation (e. g., [6,7,8] In the preceeding equations, bis the Burgers vector, p is the dislocation density, ß = l/kBT, kB is Boltzmann's constant, T is the absolute temperature, and VD is the attempt frequency which may be identified with the Debye frequency to a first approximation.…”