“…On the other hand, the Bauschinger effect of materials had been recognized to be caused by mainly the accumulation of long-range internal stress due to pile-up of dislocations around obstacles, which in the steel of interest is the Ferrite -Pearlite interface. In the case where the applied stress is reversed, some of the piled-up reversely mobile dislocations move in the opposite direction [19 -23], and after a certain straining, form the equivalent dislocation structures with that before reverse loading; that is, the same dislocation density [19,20,24,25]. Thus, in addition to plastic strain induced by reversely mobile dislocations at the early stage of reverse loading, subsequent plastic straining up to the same dislocation density as reached previously would presumably not aggravate the material damage for ductile cracking.…”