“…A necessary condition for the nucleation of a microvoid, by decohesion of the partic1e-matrix interface, is that the elastic strain energy released by the particle must be greater than or equal to the energy created by the new surfacees) (Goods and Brown (1979), Thomason (1990), Anderson (1995), Argon and Safoglu (1975), Gurland and Plateau (1963), Garrison and Moody (1987), Wilsdorf (1983), Stone et al (1985) and Tanaka et al (1970)). The local stress caused by dislocation pile-up due to a far field stress which adds to the stress requirement for particle matrix decohesion has been shown by Brown and Stobbs (1976) to be expressed by:…”