The effects of the nanotwin and dislocation pileup at the twin boundary on lattice dislocation emission from a surface semi-elliptical blunt crack in deformed nanocrystalline materials (NCMs) are investigated. The nanotwin as a stress source can be described by a wedge disclination quadrupole. Using the complex variable method, complex analytic solution of stress field, the dislocation force and the critical stress intensity factors (SIFs) for the first edge dislocation emission were obtained. Then, through numerical calculation, the influence ...