Heterostructured stainless steel: Properties, current trends, and future perspectives

L Romero-Resendiz, M El-Tahawy, T Zhang… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study of heterostructured materials (HSMs) answered one of the most pressing
questions in the metallurgical field:“is it possible to greatly increase both the strength and the …

Mechanical properties of metal nanolaminates

IJ Beyerlein, Z Li, NA Mara - Annual Review of Materials …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent basic research on two categories of metal-based nanolaminates:
those composed of metal/metal constituents and those composed of metal/ceramic …

An atomistic-to-microscale computational analysis of the dislocation pileup-induced local stresses near an interface in plastically deformed two-phase materials

Y Peng, R Ji, T Phan, W Gao, VI Levitas, L Xiong - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Taking the two-phase material as a model system, here we perform atomistic-to-microscale
computational analysis on how the dislocations pileup is formed at a buried interface …

Synergistic effects of twin boundary and phase boundary for enhancing ultimate strength and ductility of lamellar TiAl single crystals

H Xiang, W Guo - International Journal of Plasticity, 2022 - Elsevier
The strength-ductility trade-off is a long-standing challenge in engineering and material
sciences. The introductions of twin boundary or phase boundary in materials have been …

Simultaneous high strength and mechanical stability of bcc Nb/Mg nanolaminates

M Jain, K Yaddanapudi, AT Kidigannappa, K Baldwin… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
While bimetallic nanocomposites have demonstrated extraordinary–three to even ten-fold–
gains in strength with decreasing layer thickness, their strengths tend to plateau beyond a …

Enhancing the toughness of nano-composite coating for light alloys by the plastic phase transformation of zirconia

W Qian, Z Zhang, S Wang, Z Guo, Y Chen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Toughness of ceramic coatings is essential for engineering deploys of light alloys, especially
for the scenarios tackling with corrosion and wear. This work reports a toughened ZrO …

Role of stacking fault energy in confined layer slip in nanolaminated Cu

W Ji, WR Jian, Y Su, S Xu, IJ Beyerlein - Journal of Materials Science, 2024 - Springer
Metallic nanolaminates exhibit superior strength compared to their coarsely laminated
counterparts. For layer thicknesses in the range of a few to tens of nanometers, the strength …

Mechanistic insights into interface-facilitated dislocation nucleation and phase transformation at semicoherent bimetal interfaces

XP Shen, BN Yao, ZR Liu, D Legut, HJ Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The nucleation of lattice dislocations and interface sliding at bimetal interfaces are two
fundamental mechanisms of plasticity that are responsible for the mechanical responses of …

[HTML][HTML] Thermo-kinetic orientation study on interface behavior of polycrystalline Cu-Nb composite by crystal plasticity finite element method

YB Zhang, SJ Song, F Liu - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a 3-dimensional (3D) crystal plastic finite element method (CPFEM) combined
with the qualitative analysis of slip thermodynamics and kinetics is applied to study the co …

The mechanism of hcp-bcc phase transformation in Mg single crystal under high pressure

JN Zhou, YF Guo, JY Ren, XZ Tang - Scripta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanism of phase transformation from hexagonal close-packed (hcp) to body-
centered-cubic (bcc) structure in Mg single crystal under high pressure is studied by …