As important structural materials widely used in aerospace and automotive industries,
aluminum alloys are perfect candidates for development of laser metal additive …

As a carrier of deformation information, the speckle pattern, or more exactly the random
intensity distributions, which could be naturally occurred or artificially fabricated onto test …

Simultaneously investigating strain partitioning and the underlying deformation mechanisms
for both the grain interior and the grain boundary (GB) is essential for understanding the …

In order to clarify the effects of the martensite distribution on the mechanical properties of low-
carbon dual-phase steel, four types of dual-phase steel with different ferrite grain sizes and …

Advanced experimental and numerical approaches are being developed to capture the
localization of plasticity at the nanometer scale as a function of the multiscale and …

Microstructures of multi-phase alloys undergo morphological and crystallographic changes
upon deformation, corresponding to the associated microstructural strain fields. The multiple …

Powder metallurgy (PM) Ni-based superalloys are widely used for aeroengine turbine disc
applications due to their excellent mechanical properties and good corrosion resistance at …

The plastic deformation of single crystal magnesium is strongly anisotropic. This gives rise to
deformation incompatibilities between grains during polycrystalline deformation, which are …

Damage during cycling loading of polycrystalline metallic alloys involves localized plastic
straining at the scale of individual grains. To better understand damage accumulation …

The development and validation of crystal plasticity models requires the ability to map
deformation at the microstructural scale. Here, a new method of high-resolution deformation …