The lifetime and performance of any engineering component, from nanoscale sensors to
macroscopic structures, are strongly influenced by fracture processes. Fracture itself is a …

Designing microstructure for damage tolerance requires a detailed understanding of how an
advancing crack interacts with the microstructure (and sometimes modifies it locally) at …

This paper reviews recent studies, that not only includes both experiments and modeling
components, but celebrates a close coupling between these techniques, in order to provide …

Understanding the competing modes of brittle versus ductile fracture is critical for preventing
the failure of body-centered cubic (BCC) refractory metals. Despite decades of intensive …

The mobility of defects such as dislocations controls the mechanical properties of metals.
This mobility is determined both by the characteristics of the defect and the material, as well …

The interaction between stress fields at the crack-tip and nearby microstructural
heterogeneities influences the crack path, and in turn, the effective fracture toughness of a …

The deformation of all materials can be separated into elastic and plastic parts. Measuring
the purely plastic component is complex but crucial to fully characterize, understand, and …

Fracture occurs on multiple interacting length scales; atoms separate on the atomic scale
while plasticity develops on the microscale. A dynamic multiscale approach (CADD: coupled …

Measuring the local behaviour of a propagating crack in a quantitative manner has always
been a challenge in the field of fracture mechanics. In-situ microcantilever testing inside a …

Ductile fracture in alloys is a multiscale process in which primary voids formed at micron-
scale particles coalesce by a zig-zag pattern of shear localization driven by finer-scale …