Homogeneous interfaces like grain boundaries (GBs) play an important role in crystalline
plasticity as they often serve as obstacles for dislocation motion, as well as dislocation …

Using microcompression methodology, various plastic deformation characteristics, namely
the strength, strain-rate sensitivity (SRS) and activation volume, of< 1 0 0>-single-crystalline …

Both the homogeneous boundaries and the heterophase interfaces play important roles in
crystalline plasticity as they often serve as obstacles for dislocation motion, as well as …

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

The strain hardening behavior of nanolayered Cu/Zr micropillars was studied using the
microcompression technique, which revealed that both the strain hardening exponent and …

Three-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics simulations have been used to study the
stress–strain response of Cu single-crystal micropillars containing initial dislocation …

Under mechanical loading, the strain hardening behavior of crystalline face-centered cubic
(FCC) metals is of critical importance in determining fracture behavior and overall …

The microcompression method was used to investigate the compressive plastic flow
behavior of nanolayered crystalline/amorphous (C/A) Cu/Cu–Zr micropillars within wide …

Metastable high entropy alloys (HEAs) and amorphous metallic glasses (MGs), with the
chemical disordered character, are intensively studied due to their excellent performance …

The mechanical behavior of incoherent Cu/Zr multilayers was studied in uniaxial
compression experiments using micropillars with individual layer thicknesses (h) ranging …