To understand the underlying mechanisms that control the mechanical properties of
nanostructured metals, an insight into the role of the grain boundary in dislocation-driven …

The size effect in body-centered cubic metals is comprehensively investigated through
micro/nano-compression tests performed on focused ion beam machined tungsten (W) …

The onset of plasticity in crystalline materials is important to the fundamental understanding
of plastic deformation and the development of precision devices. Dislocation nucleation and …

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the yield strength of thermally annealed
nanocrystalline Cu samples. For strain rates of 1× 1010 and 1× 109s− 1, the observed yield …

The micromechanisms related to ductile failure during dynamic loading of nanocrystalline
Cu are investigated in a series of large-scale molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations. Void …

It has been known for more than half a century that crystals can be made stronger by
introducing defects into them, ie, by strain-hardening. As the number of defects increases …

The small ductility of nanocrystalline metals limits their use in a variety of applications, which
therefore do not benefit from their ultrahigh strength potential.[1, 2] Most thin metallic films …

The mechanical behavior of incoherent Cu/Zr multilayers was studied in uniaxial
compression experiments using micropillars with individual layer thicknesses (h) ranging …

The yield strength of sub-micron single-crystal metal pillars and wires increases with
decreasing pillar diameter. Here, we show that the yield stress (resolved onto a slip system) …

Scaling in material properties is of great importance in microsystems and microelectronics
where the device dimensions continuously shrink. Recently, compression tests of micron …