Abstract
Polymer crystals generally present, around screw dislocations, a discrete rotation of terraces over each other, always in the same sense. In the proposed model, this rotation in flat or pyramidal single crystals is due to the distortion of the cell which appear in order to relax the surface stress created by the folds. The relation between the chirality of the translation-rotation of the terraces and the chirality of the screw dislocation gives information about the nature (tensile or compressive) of the surface stress parallel to the folding plane.
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