Disordered structures of boron nitride (BN), graphite, boron carbide (BC), and boron carbon
nitride (BCN) systems are considered important precursor materials for synthesis of …

The present molecular dynamics (MD) study investigates the effect of Mn and C additions
and phase boundaries on the deformation mechanism of fcc/bcc crystallites at an atomic …

Atomic structures and migration mechanisms of interphase boundaries have been of
scientific interest for many years owing to their significance in the field of phase …

The effect of oxygen on phase stability and β–α ″martensitic transformation in Ti–Nb alloys
has been studied using first principles calculations. Three stable atomic configurations of Ti …

Abstract Effects of uniaxial tensile directions on the phase transformations in a nano-sized
face centred cubic (fcc) crystal in iron were studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The …

The formation of metallic glass through melt processing proves to be the most challenging
for pure monatomic face-centered cubic (FCC) metals. Though it has long been conjectured …

With our recently developed deformation device, the in situ tensile tests of single crystal
molybdenum nanowires with various size and aspect ratio were conducted inside a …

Severe plastic deformation (SPD) has become one of common and important tools to control
the nanostructures of bulk metallic materials. Effect of nanostructure formation by SPD on …

As to multifunctional titanium alloys with high strength and low elastic modulus, thermal
training is crucial to tune their thermal expansion from positive to negative, resulting in a …

Investigating the shock-induced structural phase transition (PT) in Al is of paramount interest
due to its extensive use in numerous dynamic compression experiments. In this paper, we …