This review examines the recent literature that has focused on uniaxial compression
experiments of single crystals at the micrometer scale. Collectively, the studies discovered …

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 …

The deformation of micron-sized single-crystals is jumpy and stochastic, and this may pose
potential formability and reliability problems if components for future micro-machines are to …

Micron-sized metallic crystals are much stronger than their bulk counterparts. However, their
deformation is jerky and they do not strain harden continuously, so that precise metal …

The hardening effects of focused ion beam (FIB) induced damage produced during the
fabrication of micropillars are examined by introducing a surface layer of nanosized …

Discrete dislocation dynamics is a numerical tool developed to model the plasticity of
crystalline materials at an intermediate length scale, between the atomistic modeling and the …

Probing mechanical properties in the micrometer regime is of current interest in materials
science. A focused ion beam microscope was employed to fabricate miniaturized …

The plastic behavior of micro-and nano-scale crystalline pillars is investigated under
nominally uniform compression. The transition from forest hardening to exhaustion …

2D discrete dislocation dynamic modeling of compressed micro-pillars attached on a huge
base is executed to study the size-dependent microplastic behavior of micro-pillars and the …

Recent uniaxial compression experiments on FCC metallic micro-crystals revealed their
unique deformation behaviour as compared to the bulk situation. The distinctive behaviour …