Theoretical and numerical investigations on confined plasticity in micropillars

Y Cui, Z Liu, Z Zhuang - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2015 - Elsevier
Multiscale dislocation dynamic simulations are systematically carried out to reveal the
dislocation mechanism controlling the confined plasticity in coated micropillar. It is found that …

Dislocation escape-related size effects in single-crystal micropillars under uniaxial compression

H Tang, KW Schwarz, HD Espinosa - Acta Materialia, 2007 - Elsevier
The size-dependence of the plastic response of single-crystal micropillars at
submicron/micron length scales under compression was investigated using three …

Combined influences of micro-pillar geometry and substrate constraint on microplastic behavior of compressed single-crystal micro-pillar: Two-dimensional discrete …

C Ouyang, Z Li, M Huang, L Hu, C Hou - Materials Science and …, 2009 - Elsevier
2D discrete dislocation dynamic modeling of compressed micro-pillars attached on a huge
base is executed to study the size-dependent microplastic behavior of micro-pillars and the …

Numerical study of the size-dependent deformation morphology in micropillar compressions by a dislocation-based crystal plasticity model

P Lin, Z Liu, Z Zhuang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, size-dependent deformation morphology has been observed in uniaxial
micropillar compression experiments. After deformation, large pillar shows a barrel shape …

Size effect on the compressive strength of hollow micropillars governed by wall thickness

H Fan, Z Li, M Huang - Scripta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The compressive behavior of hollow micropillars is modeled by three-dimensional discrete
dislocation dynamics (3D-DDD). Computational results show that wall thickness is the …

Stochastic behaviors in plastic deformation of face-centered cubic micropillars governed by surface nucleation and truncated source operation

W Cai, WD Nix, H Gao - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Three dimensional dislocation dynamics (DD) simulations are performed to investigate the
governing mechanism of size dependent plastic deformation in submicron face-centered …

Plasticity of bcc micropillars controlled by competition between dislocation multiplication and depletion

WD Nix, W Cai - Acta materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent micropillar experiments have shown strong size effects at small pillar diameters. This
“smaller is stronger” phenomenon is widely believed to involve dislocation motion, which …

A modified single-arm source model for the size-dependent strain-hardening behavior of metallic micropillars

H Guo, X Zhang, F Shang, B Pan… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The recent theoretical and experimental studies indicate that a strong size effect of strain
hardening exists in small-sized metallic pillars. To better predict the size-dependent strain …

Analysis of heterogeneous deformation and dislocation dynamics in single crystal micropillars under compression

S Akarapu, HM Zbib, DF Bahr - International Journal of Plasticity, 2010 - Elsevier
The size dependent deformation of Cu single crystal micropillars with thickness ranging from
0.2 to 2.5 μm subjected to uniaxial compression is investigated using a Multi-scale …

Toward a further understanding of intermittent plastic responses in the compressed single/bicrystalline micropillars

H Fan, Z Li, M Huang - Scripta materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The compressive properties of two single-and bicrystalline micropillars are comparatively
modeled through three-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics. A dislocation-penetrable …