Deformation twinning in body-centered cubic metals and alloys

X Li, Z Zhang, J Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Deformation twinning is an important plastic carrier competing with the ordinary dislocation
slip in a broad class of crystalline solids, which critically controls the mechanical properties …

Phase transformation induced transitional twin boundary in body-centered cubic metals

X Li, Q Zhao, Y Tian, Q Wang, J Fan, K Song, H Zhou… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Body-centred cubic (BCC) metals possess unstable intrinsic stacking fault and high
resistance for deformation twinning, which often induce complex twinning dynamics that …

Unveiling deformation twin nucleation and growth mechanisms in BCC transition metals and alloys

J Xiao, L Zhu, R Wang, C Deng, Z Wu, Y Zhu - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Twinning provides critical stress-relieving and flaw tolerance in body-centred cubic (BCC)
transition metals (TMs) when dislocation plasticity is suppressed. Twin nucleation and …

Mapping pure plastic strains against locally applied stress: Revealing toughening plasticity

TEJ Edwards, X Maeder, J Ast, L Berger, J Michler - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
The deformation of all materials can be separated into elastic and plastic parts. Measuring
the purely plastic component is complex but crucial to fully characterize, understand, and …

Nucleation of extended defects in BCC transition metals

AHM Faisal, CR Weinberger - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
Critical thickness of deformation twins in body centered cubic transition metals have been a
topic of debate with many computational and experimental studies accepting a three-layer …

Strong size effect on deformation twin-mediated plasticity in body-centered-cubic iron

L Zhao, G Chen, H Zheng, S Jia, K Li, R Jiang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Deformation twinning serves as an important mode of plastic dissipation processes in
nanoscale body-centered cubic (BCC) metals, but its origin and spatio-temporal features are …

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 …

Twinning dynamics in nanoscale body-centered cubic tungsten

X Li, Q Zeng, J Wang - Scripta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The non-planar core structure of screw dislocations in body-centered cubic (BCC) metals
strongly influences its twinning dynamics, resulting in a minimum embryo size of six-layers …

Microstructure and low-temperature impact fracture behavior of QT400-18AL containing Ni

Y Zhang, X Guo, B Fu, T Dong, J Li, G Li - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects of Ni content on the microstructures and low-temperature impact fracture
behaviors of QT400-18AL ferritic ductile cast iron were systematically investigated by XRD …

Orientation effect on twin formation mechanisms of tungsten under uniaxial tension/compression

Y Li, H Xie, D Zhen - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
The orientation effect on the twin formation mechanism of body-centered cubic tungsten
nanopillars was systematically investigated by molecular dynamics simulation. The …