“…The effective or bulk diffusion coefficient in this case will be Claire 1976) where D, Dp are, respectively, the volume and pipe diffusion coefficients and x ~ CpUp/CU iS the mole ratio of the amount of the diffusing species in the cores to that in the matrix, Cp and c being the respective molar concentrations in cores and matrix and Vp and v the respective volumes occupied by cores and matrix. If we take the effective pipe diameter of the dislocation to be of the order of 1 nm, then vp/v --~ 10 18p where p is the dislocation density in m -e and, for predominance of pipe diffusion, (1) leads to D c p >> lft ~s --_ Dp Cp…”