IntoductionIt is well known that amplitude-dependent internal friction (ADIF) in crystals is created by the interaction between dislocations and point defects (PD). There is a number of theories of dislocation ADIF and numerous experimental tests of them. This review is devoted to works where base theories in this field were probed by means of experiments performed in Ioffe Physical -Technical Institute. A wide scope of investigation of ADIF in Ioffe Institute enables to pass in the review the main directions of developing in this field of Mechanical Spectroscopy. That approach gives rather full consideration of mechanisms and facilities of internal friction (IF) to study the plasticity of crystals. Of course, IF is indirect method of the study of plasticity. Therefore in the beginning of the overview of investigations in Ioffe Institute the main theories of ADIF will be given in their historic development.Read [1,2] in 1940 showed that plastic deformation influences on ultrasound damping in wide region of oscillation amplitudes. Some earlier, Davidenkov, 1938, in Ioffe Institute suggested the conception of ADIF as a result of nonlinear microplastic deformation [3]. It is possible to say that Read's experiments were the first confirmation of Davidenkov's hypothesis in dislocation terms. These works woke up the interest to ADIF and Young's modulus defect (YMD) of crystals in connection with the possibility to obtain new additional information about plastic deformation and dislocation dynamics by measurements at very low stress level. The most of dislocation theories of ADIF can be divided into two groups: the theory of the breakaway and the theory of unlocalized friction. The former is based on Granato-L cke theory [4]. According to this theory based on the string model of dislocation [5], there are two mechanisms of energy losses. The amplitudeindependent IF results from forced vibrations of free dislocation between the weak pinning points on the ends (dislocation resonance damping). This damping is determined only by dislocation viscous drag by phonons and electrons. The other mechanism, ADIF is explained by pulling the dislocations away from their weak pinning points (dislocation breakaway damping). This damping increases strongly with strain amplitude. The second group of models considers the motion of a dislocation by overcoming a number of potential barriers. The averaged friction stress operating on moving dislocation is considered in the framework of the models.
Breakway ModelsAccording to Granato-L cke [6,7] the dislocation structure consists of segments of the length n L along which PD are randomly distributed. Segments are strictly pinned on the ends in the nods of dislocation net. The PD are the weak pinning points. The mean distance between them is l with n L l << .