Twinning dominated microstructural evolution in tungsten under impact loading

J Li, C Chen, J Xiao, M Wang, Z Du, C Deng - Journal of Materials Science, 2024 - Springer
Under extreme conditions such as impact loads, the dominant mechanism of tungsten (W)
deformation is not well understood, and this problem is crucial for the application of W in …

A combined EBSD and machine learning study of predicting deformation twinning in BCC Fe81Ga19 alloy

Z Ma, Y Zhang, Y Xia, Y Wang, RDK Misra… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
Compared to face-centered cubic (FCC) metals, body-centered cubic (BCC) metals
demonstrate more intricate deformation behavior and microstructural characteristics …

Disconnection units of twinning in body-centered-cubic metals

G Wei, H Xie, JP Du, T He, G Lu, S Ogata - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Twin boundary (TB) migration, facilitated by the motion of disconnections, plays a pivotal
role in the deformation of body-centered cubic (BCC) crystals. Comprehending the migration …

Shear response of< 110> asymmetric tilt grain boundaries in BCC-Fe

J Veerababu, A Nagesha, V Shankar - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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Zig-zag surface step migration and structure modulation in metallic nanowires

X Li, Q Zhu, K Song, J Wang - Materials Characterization, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanoscale metals frequently exhibit novel mechanical properties or physiochemical
performances, due to the growing influence of surfaces. Here, we uncover a unique surface …

Phase-transformation assisted twinning in Molybdenum nanowires

A Mostafa, L Vu, Z Guo, AK Shargh, A Dey… - Computational Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Systematic molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate deformation
mechanisms in molybdenum (Mo) nanowires (NWs) under uniaxial tensile and compressive …

The structure of deformation twins in BCC transition metals during nucleation and growth

AHM Faisal, CR Weinberger - Computational Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Nucleation and growth of deformation twins in BCC transition metals have been investigated
in many computational and experimental studies without conclusively describing the critical …

Slip to twinning to slip transition in polycrystalline BCC-Fe: Effect of grain size

J Veerababu, A Nagesha, V Shankar - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2024 - Elsevier
A slip-to-twinning-to-slip transition concerning grain size has not been reported in the
literature on BCC-Fe so far. In the present investigation, we report slip-to-twinning and …

Microstructural characterization to reveal evidence of shock deformation in a Campo del Cielo meteorite fragment

GJ Francolini, TB Britton - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16901, 2024 - arxiv.org
The study of meteorites and their microstructures is a topic which spans multiple fields of
research, such as meteoritics and materials science. For materials scientists and engineers …

Understanding the Physics Associated with the Thermally Activated Nature of the Soft Brittle-to-Ductile Transition

H Brumblay, X Zhou, CR Weinberger - Available at SSRN 4774753 - papers.ssrn.com
The Brittle-to-ductile transition (BDT) in body centered cubic metals exhibits a soft transition
wherein the fracture toughness gradually rises to before the onset of ductility. The resultant …