Single-crystal micropillar specimens of a hexagonal Laves phase (Fe, Ni) 2Nb, produced by
focused ion beam milling, demonstrated plastic deformation in compression at room …

Strain-rate sensitivity (SRS) measurements using transient small-scale techniques are
becoming increasingly popular for investigating nanostructured films and microcomponents …

The magnetron sputtering technique was employed to prepare Zr-alloyed Cu thin films with
Zr addition ranging from 0 to 7.0 at.%. Microstructure evolution with Zr doping was …

Multi-principal element (MPE) alloys, sometimes also known as high entropy, complex
concentration or multicomponent alloys, have attracted significant attention due to their …

Nanolayered metallic composites usually deform via a transition from homogeneous
deformation to major shear banding with decreasing layer thickness, and thus the …

Microscale dynamic testing is vital to the understanding of material behavior at application
relevant strain rates. However, despite two decades of intense micromechanics research …

We measure the strain rate dependence of 0.2% offset yield stress in single-crystal nickel
nanowires with diameters ranging from 80 to 300 nm. In situ tensile experiments with strain …

This paper recounts recent advances on the atomistic modeling of twinning in body-centered
cubic (bcc) and face-centered cubic (fcc) alloy. Specifically, we have reviewed:(i) the …

The paper explores plastic deformation mechanisms in metal–graphene nanocomposites,
illustrating their material strengthening effects through a crystal plasticity finite element …

It is widely stated that yield stress extraction from micro-compression testing can be
unreliable due to factors such as the pillar taper, pillar-punch misalignment and lateral …