Abstract Graphene/Aluminum (Gr/Al) composites with different graphene chirality and
distribution patterns were established. The contribution of graphene interfaces to the …

The failure modes and mechanisms of single and polycrystalline aluminum under different
stress states are very different. Therefore, molecular dynamics methods were used to study …

Bauschinger effects typically describe a reduction of yield strength after a load path change
under uniaxial loading conditions. Here, we use in-plane loading to investigate, for the first …

The range of application of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is rapidly expanding
owing to the recent advance in high-performance computing. Since only the coordinate and …

Temperature has a great influence on the mechanical properties of nano-materials. The
molecular dynamics method was used to study the effect of temperature on the tension …

During the fabrication of thin-walled superalloy structures, materials often undergo complex
loading paths and exhibit different mechanical properties compared to those under simple …

The microstructure of a 1050 aluminium alloy produced by hydrostatic extrusion varies in
terms of grain boundary characteristics and the dislocation substructure depending on the …

A mechanism of anomalous tension-compression (TC) asymmetry in ultrafine-grained (UFG)
metals is proposed using large-scale atomistic simulations and dislocation theory. Unlike …

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are often subject to mechanical vibration or
temperature, the fatigue reliability of small metal parts is a potential problem for long-term …

We report on cooperative grain rotation accompanied by a strong Bauschinger effect in
nanocrystalline (nc) palladium thin film. A thin film of nc Pd was subjected to cyclic loading …