tively proposed based on stacking fault energy (SFE).As shown in Fig. 1, PSB ladders or walls are a three-dimensional structure. PSB ladders from t he (12 − 1) plane or PSB walls from the (111) plane occupy about 10% of the PSBs by volume. The walls are 0.03-0.25 μm in thickness with a spacing of about 1.3 μm (see Fig. 2) and they consist of numerous dipoles, especially faulted dipole. The socalled faulted dipole consists of four Shockley partial dislocations and three stacking faults. Th e stair-rods lie at the ends of the stacking fault in the secondary slip plane and their relative position are thus fixed. The dipole as a whole can assume an S-or Z-shaped configuration depending on the position of the Shockley partials. In 1976, Antonopoulos et al. [11,12] pointed out that the matrix vein contained both primary edge dipole and faulted dipole, however, the PSBs were almost full of faulted dipoles, which reflected the microstructure evolution of dislocation patterns. On Based on a large number of experimental results available, it is found that not all the fatigued face-centered-cubic (FCC) pure metals can form the classical persistent slip band (PSB)-ladder structure. The formation of the regular dislocation patterns, especially the PSB ladders, follows one unified principle on the dislocation aggregation and evolution. According to the principle, a simple criterion based on stacking fault energy is proposed to judge whether or not the regular PSB ladders in different FCC pure metals can form.