Analysis of single crystalline microwires under torsion using a dislocation-based continuum formulation

K Zoller, K Schulz - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
In the course of structural component miniaturization, the interest in the material behavior at
small scales and underlying physical mechanisms has significantly grown in the last years …

An experimental investigation of intermittent flow and strain burst scaling behavior in LiF crystals during microcompression testing

DM Dimiduk, EM Nadgorny, C Woodward… - Philosophical …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The first experimental statistical study is reported of intermittent plastic deformation of LiF
microscopic samples having low initial dislocation densities, in both as-grown and gamma …

Size-affected single-slip behavior of René N5 microcrystals

PA Shade, MD Uchic, DM Dimiduk… - Materials Science and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Microcompression testing was conducted on the cast single crystal nickel-base superalloy
René N5. Microcrystals were selectively fabricated from either dendrite core or interdendritic …

Anisotropic size-dependent plasticity in face-centered cubic micropillars under torsion

I Ryu, W Cai, WD Nix, H Gao - JOM, 2016 - Springer
Three-dimensional dislocation dynamics (DD) simulations are performed to investigate the
size-dependent plasticity in submicron face-centered cubic (FCC) micropillars under torsion …

Mesoscale modeling of dislocation-interactions in multilayered materials

S Shao, C Zhou, A Misra, J Wang - Handbook of Materials Modeling …, 2020 - Springer
Multilayer materials with extremely fine interface spacing exhibit interface-dominated
thermomechanical behaviors. Modeling and predicting properties of such materials on the …

Simulations of the effect of surface coatings on plasticity at small scales

C Zhou, S Biner, R LeSar - Scripta Materialia, 2010 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional dislocation dynamics simulations were employed to examine how hard
coatings affect plastic deformation in micron-and submicron-sized, single-crystal pillars …

Review of size effects during micropillar compression test: Experiments and atomistic simulations

S Shahbeyk, GZ Voyiadjis, V Habibi, SH Astaneh… - Crystals, 2019 - mdpi.com
The micropillar compression test is a novel experiment to study the mechanical properties of
materials at small length scales of micro and nano. The results of the micropillar …

Temperature dependent plasticity in BCC micropillars

NK Aragon, S Yin, H Lim - Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent experiments in micron-or sub-micron metallic pillars have displayed size dependent
plasticity. Dislocation dynamics (DD) simulations can be a useful tool in studying dislocation …

Effect of dislocation pile-up on size-dependent yield strength in finite single-crystal micro-samples

B Pan, Y Shibutani, X Zhang, F Shang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Recent research has explained that the steeply increasing yield strength in metals depends
on decreasing sample size. In this work, we derive a statistical physical model of the yield …

Green's function molecular dynamics meets discrete dislocation plasticity

SP Venugopalan, MH Müser… - Modelling and Simulation …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Metals deform plastically at the asperity level when brought in contact with a counter body
even when the nominal contact pressure is small. Modeling the plasticity of solids with rough …