… of plastic deformation and thermal activation should play only a minor role. Fig. 9 shows in a
very clear fashion that decohesion starts immediately, upon plastic deformation, at … has cubic …

… cubic metals, twinned nanopillars in body-centered cubic (BCC) systems are much less
explored partly due to the more complicated plastic deformation … potentials in BCC tungsten (W) …

… Twinning is a fundamental deformation mode that competes against dislocation slip in
crystalline solids. In metallic nanostructures, plastic deformation requires higher stresses than …

… [46] with the goal of reproducing fundamental physical properties of body-centered cubic (bcc)
tungsten such as the structural, elastic, and defect properties. The present simulations …

… the shear deformation path moves from cubic to monoclinic to … ) resolve itself by plastic
deformation through twinning or … temperatures will cleave before plastic deformation intrudes. …

… plastic deformation of low stacking-fault face-centered cubic (Fcc) metals but rarely found in
body-centered cubic … Fcc metals, a majority of deformation twins in Bcc metals are unstable …

… feature of a body-centered-cubic crystal. For monocrystalline … reports on the plastic deformation
of tungsten single crystals in … the plastic material parameters of monocrystalline tungsten …

… The most prominent features of the plastic deformation of body-centered cubic (bcc) metals
are the rapid increase of the flow stress with decreasing temperature and increasing strain …

… A similar plot of the dependence of σ ∗ on temperature for tungsten deformed in tension/…
in [45] are available to test these predicted features of the plastic yielding in tungsten. …

… This tension-compression asymmetry can be attributed to the different plastic deformation
mechanisms: dislocations on distant slip planes in tensile loading but on adjacent slip planes …