Abstract
Abstract The applicability of the random cooperative strain interaction model to the description of interaction of interstitial solute atoms (ISAs) in bcc metals (the Snoek relaxation) is discussed in detail. Based on this model in the mean-field approximation with the ‘Onsager correction’, a new formula describing the mechanical after-effect (creep) is derived and analysed. The results make it possible to formulate a hypothesis in which to a first approximation the interaction of ISAs in bcc metals does not depend on the solvent lattice nor, possibly, on the kind of solute atom. Some indications concerning future experiments leading to the verification of this hypothesis are presented.
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