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 …

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 …

Prior to macroscopic yielding, most materials undergo a regime of plastic activity that cannot
be resolved in conventional bulk deformation experiments. In this pre-yield, or micro-plastic …

Supply chain information collaboration refers to a relationship in which supply chain
partners organically integrate, coordinate, and develop resources, business processes, and …

Crystals deform by the intermittent multiplication and slip avalanches of dislocations. While
dislocation multiplication is well-understood, how the avalanches form, however, is not clear …

We capture the spatiotemporal velocity dynamics of dislocation avalanches in face-centered
cubic (FCC) gold and body-centered cubic (BCC) niobium crystals by compression testing of …

The intermittent plasticity of pure Mo microcrystals with diameters from 500 to 3500 nm was
studied using micro-pillar compression methodology at temperatures ranging from 25° C to …

Crystal plasticity causes structural fluctuations that can be scale-free and therefore admit
power-law distributions. Numerous experiments, modeling, and theory have reported a …

It is widely stated that yield stress extraction from micro-compression testing can be
unreliable due to factors such as the pillar taper, pillar-punch misalignment and lateral …

Plastic flow at small scales is generally observed to be intermittent, whereas the stress-strain
behavior of bulk crystals is mostly smooth. Here we find that when the external deformation …