Plasticity in small-sized metallic systems: Intrinsic versus extrinsic size effect

JR Greer, JTM De Hosson - Progress in Materials Science, 2011 - Elsevier
A material strength depends on its microstructure, which in turn, is controlled by an
engineering process. Strengthening mechanisms like work hardening, precipitate, and grain …

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 interactions and low-angle grain boundary strengthening

B Liu, D Raabe, P Eisenlohr, F Roters, A Arsenlis… - Acta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
The transmission of an incoming dislocation through a symmetrical low-angle tilt grain
boundary (GB) is studied for {110}〈 111〉 slip systems in body-centered cubic metals using …

Work hardening in micropillar compression: In situ experiments and modeling

D Kiener, PJ Guruprasad, SM Keralavarma, G Dehm… - Acta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
Experimental measurements and simulation results for the evolution of plastic deformation
and hardening in micropillars are compared. The stress–strain response of high-symmetry …

Plastic deformation mechanisms of fcc single crystals at small scales

C Zhou, IJ Beyerlein, R LeSar - Acta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional (3-D) dislocation dynamics simulations were employed to examine the
fundamental mechanisms of plasticity in small-scale face-centered cubic single crystals …

Size effects in strength and plasticity of single-crystalline titanium micropillars with prismatic slip orientation

Q Sun, Q Guo, X Yao, L Xiao, JR Greer, J Sun - Scripta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
We present results of uniaxial compression experiments on rectangular prismatic titanium
micropillars loaded along [112¯ 0]. We find that flow stress increases significantly with …

Small volume investigation of slip and twinning in magnesium single crystals

GS Kim - 2011 - theses.fr
Résumé A combined experimental and computational investigation of the deformation
behavior of pure magnesium single crystal at the micron length scale has been carried out …

Trapping and escape of dislocations in micro-crystals with external and internal barriers

JA El-Awady, SI Rao, C Woodward, DM Dimiduk… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
We perform three-dimensional dislocation dynamics simulations of solid and annular pillars,
having both free-surface boundary conditions, or strong barriers at the outer and/or inner …

Atomistic processes controlling flow stress scaling during compression of nanoscale face-centered-cubic crystals

F Sansoz - Acta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
The size dependence of strength observed in submicrometer face-centered-cubic (fcc)
metallic crystals under uniform deformation depends on the interaction of pre-existing …

Nonlocal continuum crystal plasticity with internal residual stresses

R Aghababaei, SP Joshi, JN Reddy - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2011 - Elsevier
We derive a three-dimensional constitutive theory accounting for length-scale dependent
internal residual stresses in crystalline materials that develop due to a non-homogeneous …