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It is shown by theoretical arguments and lattice-model computations that when an fcc crystal is loaded uniaxially in tension along a [100] direction, a path of minimum energy (under strict [100] uniaxial load) takes the crystal into unstressed bcc.
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Milstein et al. (1980) studied this question.
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