The initiation and propagation of short cracks are critical to the detailed understanding of the
failure mechanisms of engineering materials and structures. Therefore, for a safety critical …

Abstract Knowledge of the critical resolved shear stress (CRSS) values of different slip
modes is important for accurately modeling plastic deformation of hexagonal materials …

The structure of crystalline materials is typically organised hierarchically on several length
scales. Hard x-ray microscopy is presented as a collection of modalities that allows to zoom …

The stress-induced martensitic transformation in tensioned nickel-titanium shape-memory
alloys proceeds by propagation of macroscopic fronts of localized deformation. We used …

Three-dimensional X-ray diffraction microscopy is a fast and nondestructive structural
characterization technique aimed at studies of the individual crystalline elements (grains or …

High-resolution in situ synchrotron X-ray laminography combined with digital volume
correlation (DVC) is used to measure the damage and plastic strain fields ahead of a notch …

This study provides direct observation of the crack closure mechanism of a naturally
occurring, tortuous, 3D microstructurally small fatigue crack (SFC) in additively manufactured …

The failure of polycrystalline materials used in infrastructure and transportation can be
catastrophic. Multiscale modeling, which requires multiscale measurements of internal …

Crystals with a hexagonal close-packed (HCP) structure are inherently anisotropic, and
have a limited number of independent slip systems, which leads to strong deformation …

A new approach for indexing multigrain diffraction data is presented. It is based on the use of
a monochromatic beam simultaneously illuminating all grains. By operating in sub-volumes …