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 …

Overview on micro-and nanomechanical testing: New insights in interface plasticity and fracture at small length scales

G Dehm, BN Jaya, R Raghavan, C Kirchlechner - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Micro-and nanomechanical testing has seen a rapid development over the last decade with
miniaturized test rigs and MEMS-based devices providing access to the mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] A review of experimental approaches to fracture toughness evaluation at the micro-scale

J Ast, M Ghidelli, K Durst, M Göken, M Sebastiani… - Materials & Design, 2019 - Elsevier
The discipline of fracture mechanics was born almost a century ago through the pioneering
work of AA Griffith, and saw particularly rapid growth in the second half of 20th century when …

Precipitate shearing, fault energies, and solute segregation to planar faults in Ni-, CoNi-, and Co-base superalloys

YM Eggeler, KV Vamsi… - Annual Review of Materials …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The mechanical properties of superalloys are strongly governed by the resistance to
shearing of ordered precipitates by dislocations. In the operating environments of …

Effect of ion irradiation on tensile ductility, strength and fictive temperature in metallic glass nanowires

DJ Magagnosc, G Kumar, J Schroers, P Felfer… - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Ion irradiation of thermoplastically molded Pt 57.5 Cu 14.3 Ni 5.7 P 22.5 metallic glass
nanowires is used to study the relationship between glass structure and tensile behavior …

[HTML][HTML] Fracture mechanics of micro samples: Fundamental considerations

R Pippan, S Wurster, D Kiener - Materials & Design, 2018 - Elsevier
In this review article we consider the crack growth resistance of micrometer and sub-
micrometer sized samples from the fracture mechanics point of view. Standard fracture …

Mechanical response of nanoporous gold

D Farkas, A Caro, E Bringa, D Crowson - Acta Materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
We report the results of computational tensile and compressive tests for model bi-continuous
nanoporous gold structures using atomistic simulations with empirical many-body potentials …

Tunable tensile ductility in metallic glasses

DJ Magagnosc, R Ehrbar, G Kumar, MR He… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Widespread adoption of metallic glasses (MGs) in applications motivated by high strength
and elasticity combined with plastic-like processing has been stymied by their lack of tensile …

Existence of two twinning-mediated plastic deformation modes in Au nanowhiskers

A Sedlmayr, E Bitzek, DS Gianola, G Richter, R Mönig… - Acta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
We have performed in situ scanning electron microscopy tensile experiments and molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations on nominally defect-free single-crystalline Au nanowhiskers. The …

Nanowire failure: long= brittle and short= ductile

Z Wu, YW Zhang, MH Jhon, H Gao, DJ Srolovitz - Nano letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
Experimental studies of the tensile behavior of metallic nanowires show a wide range of
failure modes, ranging from ductile necking to brittle/localized shear failure often in the …