Nanoscale contact of material surfaces provides an opportunity to explore and better understand the elastic limit and incipient plasticity in crystals. Homogeneous nucleation of a …
Tuning stacking fault energy (SFE) via alloying provides a robust protocol to manipulate deformation mechanism and consequently the mechanical properties of metallic materials …
Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation tests were used to quantify the effect of point defects (a single vacancy, a di-vacancy, a self interstitial atom and a stacking fault …
We use massively parallel molecular dynamics simulations of polycrystal plasticity to elucidate the intricate dislocation dynamics that evolves during the process of deformation of …
The yield strengths of nanomaterials are highly sensitive to their internal and surface structures. However, it is difficult to identify a priori which structural feature will govern plastic …
J Chen, W Wang, LH Qian, K Lu - Scripta Materialia, 2003 - Elsevier
The plastic deformation behavior was investigated by using nanoindentation in a magneto- sputtered nanocrystalline (nc) Cu film with an average grain size of 14 nm. The determined …
On the basis of a series of molecular dynamics simulations of the compressive deformation of〈 111∟-oriented gold nanopillars, we demonstrate that slip nucleates at surface features …
Q Sun, Q Guo, X Yao, L Xiao, JR Greer, J Sun - Scripta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
We present results of uniaxial compression experiments on rectangular prismatic titanium micropillars loaded along [112¯ 0]. We find that flow stress increases significantly with …
Although deformation processes in submicron-sized metallic crystals are well documented, the direct observation of deformation mechanisms in crystals with dimensions below the sub …