Coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) in nano-twinned materials could improve crack resistance.
However, the role of the CTBs during crack penetration has never been explored at atomic …

Nanotwinned metals have opened exciting avenues for the design of high strength and high
ductility materials. In this work, we investigate crack propagation along coherent twin …

The introduction of a well-controlled population of coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) is an
attractive route to improve the strength ductility product in face centered cubic (FCC) metals …

Incoherent twin boundaries (ITBs) are widespread and play a crucial role in unidirectional
deformation behavior of materials, however, the intrinsic role of individual ITB under cyclic …

Introducing parallel coherent twin boundaries (p-CTBs) is a high effective approach to
material strengthening. However, it has been widely verified that the strengthening effect of p …

Joint enhancement on strength and toughness provides a cutting-edge research frontier for
metals and alloys. Conventional strengthening methods typically lead to suppressed ductility …

Nanoscale twin boundaries (TBs) were recently reported to be capable of enhancing the
fracture toughness of nanocrystalline (nc) metals. The present study aims to investigate the …

Nanotwinned metals are a class of hierarchically structured materials that appear to
transcend the limits of conventional material systems by exhibiting an exceptional …

In this paper, the evolution of microstructure and the role of twin boundary during the fracture
process of nano-twinned Ag are studied through molecular dynamics simulation. The …

This paper addresses the plasticity deformation mechanisms caused by nanoindentation of
pre-existing coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) in copper using atomistic simulation. Initial …