Strength statistics of single crystals and metallic glasses under small stressed volumes

Y Gao, H Bei - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
It has been well documented that plastic deformation of crystalline and amorphous
metals/alloys shows a general trend of “smaller is stronger”. The majority of the experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling the physics of size-dependent dislocation-mediated plasticity

JA El-Awady - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Size-affected dislocation-mediated plasticity is important in a wide range of materials and
technologies. Here we develop a generalized size-dependent dislocation-based model that …

[图书][B] Dislocations, mesoscale simulations and plastic flow

L Kubin - 2013 - books.google.com
In the past twenty years, new experimental approaches, improved models and progress in
simulation techniques have brought new insights into longstanding issues concerning …

[HTML][HTML] On the mechanical heterogeneity in dual phase steel grades: Activation of slip systems and deformation of martensite in DP800

C Tian, D Ponge, L Christiansen, C Kirchlechner - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
We used micropillar compression experiments to study the plasticity of ferrite and martensite
of two commercial dual phase steel grades (DP800). The activation of all three slip plane …

Source truncation and exhaustion: insights from quantitative in situ TEM tensile testing

D Kiener, AM Minor - Nano letters, 2011 - ACS Publications
A unique method for quantitative in situ nanotensile testing in a transmission electron
microscope employing focused ion beam fabricated specimens was developed …

Dislocation starvation and exhaustion hardening in Mo alloy nanofibers

C Chisholm, H Bei, MB Lowry, J Oh, SAS Asif… - Acta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The evolution of defects in Mo alloy nanofibers with initial dislocation densities ranging from
0 to∼ 1.6× 1014m− 2 were studied using an in situ “push-to-pull” device in conjunction with …

Functional materials under stress: in situ TEM observations of structural evolution

Y Deng, R Zhang, TC Pekin, C Gammer… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The operating conditions of functional materials usually involve varying stress fields,
resulting in structural changes, whether intentional or undesirable. Complex multiscale …

Size dependence of the yield strength of fcc and bcc metallic micropillars with diameters of a few micrometers

SW Lee, WD Nix - Philosophical Magazine, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Recent micropillar compression tests of fcc and bcc single crystals have shown that 'Smaller
is Stronger'even in the absence of significant strain gradients, an effect that is empirically …

[HTML][HTML] Interface-related deformation phenomena in metallic glass/high entropy nanolaminates

Q Xu, D Şopu, X Yuan, D Kiener, J Eckert - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The deformation behavior of metallic glass (MG)-high entropy alloy (HEA) nanolaminate is
explored through molecular dynamics simulations using nanolaminate models of …

[HTML][HTML] In situ mechanical TEM: Seeing and measuring under stress with electrons

M Legros - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2014 - Elsevier
From the first observation of moving dislocations in 1956 to the latest developments of piezo-
actuated sample holders and direct electron sensing cameras in modern transmission …