A material strength depends on its microstructure, which in turn, is controlled by an
engineering process. Strengthening mechanisms like work hardening, precipitate, and grain …

Abstract Knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of materials is essential in materials
science and applied mechanics. At small sizes, this behaviour shows significant departures …

Micro-cantilevers are increasingly used to extract elastic and plastic material properties
through controlled bending using a nanoindenter. Focused Ion Beam milling can be used to …

Micro-compression tests allow for the direct measurement of stress-strain behavior in
volumes of material that have microscale dimensions. Initial studies worldwide have focused …

Understanding the strengthening of small-scale materials and structures is one of the key
issues in nanotechnology. Many theories exist, each addressing a small domain of …

Plastic deformation at the macroscopic scale has been widely exploited in industrial practice
in order to obtain desired shape and control the requested properties of metallic alloy parts …

Size Effects in Plasticity: From Macro to Nano provides concise explanations of all available
methods in this area, from atomistic simulation, to non-local continuum models to capture …

The continuing trend of miniaturizing materials in many modern technological applications
has led to a strong demand for understanding the complex mechanical properties of …

Recent experimental studies have reported improved combinations of strength and uniform
elongation in ultrafine-grained polycrystals with bi-modal grain size distributions. Despite …

There has recently been a strong interest in modeling size-dependent plasticity in metals
based on the concept of geometrically necessary dislocations. This article presents a brief …