Nano metallic laminates (NMLs) exhibit exceptional strengths. The viability of NMLs as
structural materials, however, is also conditioned on their ductility and work-hardenability …

Introducing nanotwins with extremely fine twin boundary spacing (TBSs≤ 10 nm) in metals
with high stacking fault energy (SFE) has posed a longstanding challenge, hindering an in …

Excellent mechanical properties of nanomaterials are usually attributed to their nanoscale
feature size and high-density interfaces. This work explores the effects of intrinsic interface …

Nanoscale metallic multilayers (NMMs) have attracted significant attention owing to their
enhanced mechanical properties and excellent thermal stability. However, the underlying …

This paper presents a novel formulation and its robust numerical implementation of strain-
gradient (SG) crystal plasticity within a large-strain (LS) elasto-viscoplastic (EVP) fast Fourier …

Kinking is an important and plasticity-enhancing deformation/failure mode in numerous
mechanically anisotropic materials including high-strength nano metallic laminates (NMLs) …

Under mechanical loading, the strain hardening behavior of crystalline face-centered cubic
(FCC) metals is of critical importance in determining fracture behavior and overall …

This work focuses on the mechanical properties and strengthening mechanism of Ni/Al
nanolaminates, where dislocation strengthening and constraint dominate in the soft Al …

It is of significance, but still remains a key challenge, to realize simultaneously high strength,
high conductivity and excellent thermal stability in Cu-based materials, as these desirable …

We performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the effect of interface structure
and layer thickness on the mechanical properties of multilayered Cu/Ag composite with Cu …