Ensembles of gliding grain boundary dislocations in ultrafine grained materials produced by severe plastic deformation

AA Nazarov - Scripta materialia, 1997 - osti.gov
Severe plastic deformation which is now widely used to produce an ultrafine grained (UFG)
structure in metals and alloys necessarily leads to the accumulation of interfacial …

Dense dispersed shear bands in gradient-structured Ni

Y Wang, C Huang, Y Li, F Guo, Q He, M Wang… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
During tensile deformation, nanostructured (NS) metals often fail soon after yielding by
forming a localized shear band. Here we report the observation of high density of shear …

Twinning-assisted dynamic adjustment of grain boundary mobility

Q Huang, Q Zhu, Y Chen, M Gong, J Li, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Grain boundary (GB) plasticity dominates the mechanical behaviours of nanocrystalline
materials. Under mechanical loading, GB configuration and its local deformation geometry …

Gradient nanostructured steel with superior tensile plasticity

Z Shang, T Sun, J Ding, NA Richter, NM Heckman… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Nanostructured metallic materials with abundant high-angle grain boundaries exhibit high
strength and good radiation resistance. While the nanoscale grains induce high strength …

Nonequilibrium grain boundaries in bulk nanostructured metals and their recovery under the influences of heating and cyclic deformation

AA Nazarov - Letters on materials, 2018 - lettersonmaterials.com
Extrinsic grain boundary dislocations (EGBDs) are formed in grain boundaries during plastic
deformation of polycrystals EGBDs cause a nonequilibrium structure of grain boundaries …

Strain gradient plasticity in gradient structured metals

Y Zhang, Z Cheng, L Lu, T Zhu - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Structural gradients in metallic materials can give rise to substantial extra strengths
compared to their non-gradient counterparts. This strengthening effect originates from the …

High-strength nanocrystalline intermetallics with room temperature deformability enabled by nanometer thick grain boundaries

R Su, D Neffati, J Cho, Z Shang, Y Zhang, J Ding… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Although intermetallics are attractive for their high strength, many of them are often brittle at
room temperature, thereby severely limiting their potential as structural materials. Here, we …

A unified framework for polycrystal plasticity with grain boundary evolution

NC Admal, G Po, J Marian - International Journal of Plasticity, 2018 - Elsevier
Plastic deformation in polycrystals is governed by the interplay between intra-granular slip
and grain boundary-mediated plasticity. However, while the role played by bulk dislocations …

Martensitic transformation dominated tensile plastic deformation of nanograins in a gradient nanostructured 316L stainless steel

TH Fang, NR Tao - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
We systematically investigated the tensile deformation mechanisms and mechanical
properties of a gradient nanograined AISI 316 L stainless steel prepared by means of …

Enhanced strain-rate sensitivity in fcc nanocrystals due to grain-boundary diffusion and sliding

Y Wei, AF Bower, H Gao - Acta Materialia, 2008 - Elsevier
Recent experiments on face-centered cubic (fcc) and hexagonal close packed (hcp)
nanocrystalline metals reported an increase of more than 10-fold in strain-rate sensitivity in …