Deformation and strength of crystalline materials are determined to a large extent by underlying mechanisms involving various crystal defects, such as vacancies, interstitials and impurity atoms (point defects), dislocations (line defects), grain boundaries, heterogeneous interfaces and microcracks (planar defects), chemically heterogeneous precipitates, twins and other strain-inducing phase transformations (volume defects). Most often, dislocations define plastic yield and flow behavior, either as the dominant plasticity carriers or through their interactions with the other strain-producing defects. Dislocation as a line defect in a continuum space was first introduced as a mathematical concept in the early 20th century by Voltera (1907) andSomigliana (1914). They considered the elastic properties of a cut in a continuum, corresponding to slip, disclinations, and/or dislocations. But associating these geometric cuts to dislocations in crystalline materials was not made until the year 1934. In order to explain the less than ideal strength of crystalline materials, Orowan (1934), Polanyi (1934 and Taylor (1934) simultaneously hypothesized the existence of dislocation as a crystal defect. Later in the late 50's, the existence of dislocations was experimentally confirmed by Hirsch, et al. (1956) andDash (1957). Presently these crystal defects are routinely observed by various means of electron microscopy.