Plasticity in confined dimensions

O Kraft, PA Gruber, R Mönig… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
This review examines the size effects observed in the mechanical strength of thin metal films
and small samples such as single-crystalline pillars, whiskers, and wires. Experimental …

Microstructure versus size: mechanical properties of electroplated single crystalline Cu nanopillars

AT Jennings, MJ Burek, JR Greer - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We report results of uniaxial compression experiments on single-crystalline Cu nanopillars
with nonzero initial dislocation densities produced without focused ion beam (FIB) …

Discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of plasticity at small scales

C Zhou, SB Biner, R LeSar - Acta Materialia, 2010 - Elsevier
Discrete dislocation dynamics simulations in three dimensions have been used to examine
the role of dislocation multiplication and mobility on the plasticity in small samples under …

An experimental investigation of intermittent flow and strain burst scaling behavior in LiF crystals during microcompression testing

DM Dimiduk, EM Nadgorny, C Woodward… - Philosophical …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The first experimental statistical study is reported of intermittent plastic deformation of LiF
microscopic samples having low initial dislocation densities, in both as-grown and gamma …

Simulations of the effect of surface coatings on plasticity at small scales

C Zhou, S Biner, R LeSar - Scripta Materialia, 2010 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional dislocation dynamics simulations were employed to examine how hard
coatings affect plastic deformation in micron-and submicron-sized, single-crystal pillars …

Geometrical analysis of 3D dislocation dynamics simulations of FCC micro-pillar plasticity

SW Lee, WD Nix - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2010 - Elsevier
A geometrical analysis of 3D dislocation dynamics simulations of FCC micro-pillar plasticity
shows that the insertion of jogged dislocations before relaxation or enabling cross-slip …

Characteristic sizes for exhaustion-hardening mechanism of compressed Cu single-crystal micropillars

G Yuan, Z Zhuo, L Zhan-Li, Z Xue-Chuan… - Chinese Physics …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The stress-strain response of Cu single-crystal compression micropillar containing initial
dislocation network is investigated by three-dimensional discrete dislocation dynamics …

The investigation of size effect for dislocation starvation mechanism UNDER Cu single‐crystal micro‐pillar compression

Y Gao, ZL Liu, Z Zhuang - AIP conference proceedings, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The stress‐strain response of Cu single‐crystal compression micro‐pillar containing initial
dislocation networks has been investigated in this paper by three‐dimensional discrete …

A discrete dislocation dynamics modeling for thermal fatigue of preferred oriented copper via patterns

GS Kim, MC Fivel, HJ Lee, C Shin, HN Han, HJ Chang… - Scripta Materialia, 2010 - Elsevier
A numerical modeling, which is hierarchically coupled with the crystal plasticity finite
element method and discrete dislocation dynamics, was performed to examine thermal …

Atomistic simulation studies of size effects in plasticity: compression of single-and polydomain crystals in two dimensions

NS Weingarten, RLB Selinger - Modelling and Simulation in …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We perform atomistic Monte Carlo simulations of a Lennard-Jones crystal under
uniaxial compression on single crystal and polycrystalline samples in two dimensions. In …