In situ straining experiments in a high-voltage electron microscope to study dislocation dynamics and macroscopic deformation experiments including stress relaxation tests have been performed on a number of intermetallic alloys. There are many similarities in the dynamic behaviour of dislocations in the studied materials. In the low-temperature range, different mechanisms lead to a normal decrease of the flow stress with increasing temperature. At high temperatures, in several materials the dislocations move either in an unstable or a viscous way. They are then smoothly curved, or they are straight and oriented along crystallographic directions. As the low-temperature mechanisms cease at high temperatures, the viscous motion should be due to an additional friction mechanism which also causes the flow stress anomaly in the respective materials. It is suggested here that this mechanism involves diffusion processes in the dislocation cores, which can be described by the theory of the Cottrell effect. The diffusing species can be quite different, alloying components or intrinsic point defects like vacancies and antisite defects existing in the lattice or only in the dislocation cores. If the dislocations are straight and crystallographically oriented during their motion, they may be dissociated and move by a succession of glide and conservative climb between the partial dislocations. All these processes lead to an inverse dependence of the strain rate sensivity on the stress.
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